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From: Tristan Seligmann <mithrandi@mithrandi.net>
To: cloneman <bufferbloat@flamingpc.com>, bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Bloat] Steam's download CDNs - breaking bufferbloat and inbound policers
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 18:11:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMcKhMQoXm-i3zwc64AgDk336xutvT0PWFVpTYeVu-B+dqYVgQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABQZMoKpGTjoec+Eu=QZSFef1ftFcpbhxcJ9JTy_e6AKfDsAoQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 at 06:19 cloneman <bufferbloat@flamingpc.com> wrote:

> The behavior can be observed by downloading any free game on their
> platform. I'm trying to figure out how they've accomplished this and how to
> mitigate this behavior. It operates with 20 http connections
> simultaneously, which is normally not an issue (20 multiple web downloads
> perform well under fq_codel and 15% reserve bandwidth)
>

I think it starts new connections quite often as it hops content delivery
nodes to find the fastest ones, perhaps this contributes to the problem?

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-04-27 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-27  4:19 cloneman
2017-04-27  4:27 ` Jonathan Morton
2017-04-27 18:11 ` Tristan Seligmann [this message]

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