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From: Bill Sommerfeld <wsommerfeld@google.com>
To: "George B." <georgeb@gmail.com>
Cc: bloat <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Bloat] philosophical question
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 11:07:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTinwVuaq5Ru-g9YQAfBVb5b4yT+aE+HB5jr+u6J+u5mtZA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikHEBoxz1JtkscYbAzp4SGVT=s06Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 21:24, George B. <georgeb@gmail.com> wrote:
> But assuming my network, as a server of content is not over
> subscribed, what would you suggest as the best qdisc for such a
> traffic profile? In other words, I am looking at this from the server
> aspect rather than from the client aspect.

Philosophical rhetorical question: If the bottlenecks are all outside
your network, where do you expect a queue to build up?  Where are you
storing packets that can't be sent right away?

I'd think the TCP congestion control algorithms would be the thing to
worry about, rather than qdiscs...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-31 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-30  4:24 George B.
2011-05-30  7:53 ` Neil Davies
2011-05-30 12:25 ` Dave Taht
2011-05-30 15:29   ` George B.
2011-05-30 15:57     ` Jonathan Morton
2011-05-31 17:20       ` George B.
2011-05-31 21:40         ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2011-05-30 17:05     ` Dave Taht
2011-05-31 18:07 ` Bill Sommerfeld [this message]
2011-05-31 19:17   ` Rick Jones
2011-05-31 19:19     ` Jim Gettys
2011-05-31 19:28   ` George B.

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