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From: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr>
To: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Cc: "aqm@ietf.org" <aqm@ietf.org>, bloat <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Bloat] A bit of history on RFC970 and RFC896 from john nagle
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 19:03:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878u098r9x.wl-jch@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA93jw4sf1EAtUx4XriKkmwV9URgCwrR1ZSH5dAde=DqZLjfQQ@mail.gmail.com>

> The classic solution, from X.25, was an accumulation timer with a human
> response time sized delay. That's a bad idea, but unfortunately the
> people who put in delayed ACKs didn't know that.  They were trying to
> fix TELNET responsiveness at Berkeley, which was using a large number of
> dumb terminals connected to terminal servers at the time. Delayed ACKs
> with a fixed timer are useful in that situation, and in few others.

Nagle has made this point repeatedly, and it's a convincing one.  Is
anyone working on improving the delack algorithm?

> Bufferbloat is only bad if the queuing is FIFO-dumb. It's fine to have
> lots of queue space if you manage it well.

Noted.

-- Juliusz

      reply	other threads:[~2016-04-19 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-15  2:38 Dave Taht
2016-04-19 17:03 ` Juliusz Chroboczek [this message]

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