General list for discussing Bufferbloat
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
To: bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Bloat] facebook releases network test tool for slow and dodgy conditions
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:57:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150324195715.GA22175@sesse.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FEFA225-B30F-40E2-8594-BDBF1D9F3DFB@gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 03:49:42PM -0400, Rich Brown wrote:
> I hope they *do* have bufferbloat in their emulator. It'd be a real shame
> if they failed to mimic the presence of bufferbloat in 3G/4G/DSL/etc.
> uplinks. Imagine if everyone developed their app using ATC, then wondered
> why their performance stinks in the real world...

Does the distinction between “low-throughput, low-latency” and
“low-throughput, low-latency, bufferbloated” really mean all that much for
the average userspace app? You have to go pretty deep in the stack before the
_reason_ for the slowness matters much.

/* Steinar */
-- 
Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-24 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-24 19:09 Dave Taht
2015-03-24 19:26 ` Dave Taht
2015-03-24 19:49   ` Rich Brown
2015-03-24 19:57     ` Steinar H. Gunderson [this message]
2015-03-24 20:03       ` Jonathan Morton

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://lists.bufferbloat.net/postorius/lists/bloat.lists.bufferbloat.net/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20150324195715.GA22175@sesse.net \
    --to=sgunderson@bigfoot.com \
    --cc=bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox