Re: [Bloat] Announcing Flent (formerly netperf-wrapper) v0.10.0

[David Lang <david@lang.hm>]

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xz is both faster and better compression than bzip, so unless there is browser 
support for bzip and not xz, bzip should be skipped.

David Lang

On Sun, 24 May 2015, Dave Taht wrote:

> um, er ah, can a modern web server or web browser decompress bzip?
> gzip support is common, and it was always my hope to have a web
> browser based parser for the output.
>
> On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:
>> also, nanog would be good to ping but this announcement is not generic
>> enough for it. I can do nanog.
>>
>> Also you have hopefully collected a lot of addresses from your
>> travels, like to caida, that are not on the bloat list.
>>
>> Best to do an announcement of that sort after you have a mailing list.
>> I hope to migrate lists.bufferbloat.net to
>> something new, leveraging your newfound expertise in that area. ;)
>>
>> Does stuff install to the mac using pip?
>>
>> On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> - A couple of new tests has been added: `rrul_50_down`, `rrul_100_up`
>>>
>>> These tests also include one saturating stream in the opposite direction,
>>> and do not graph many flows very well, as yet.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/tohojo/flent/issues/15
>>>
>>> The results are "interesting". I have been using these to completely overwhelm
>>> the sqm inbound shaper (pie,cake,fq_codel,and a policer all fail to manage
>>> the concatinated 2sec comcast queue. Sigh.)
>>>
>>> Also since we have tons more "flent" servers coming available, testing
>>> more flows at more RTTs becomes feasible.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/tohojo/flent/issues/36
>>>
>>>>   and `dslreports_8dn`.
>>>
>>> This last test is not really baked yet. My intent was to fully emulate
>>> the dslreports tests (notably using an http pinger in addition to udp), and use
>>> things like the new in-series runner to garner up and down results collected
>>> sequentially, and calculate stuff including the "grade".  But the form of those
>>> tests had not settled down upstream before this release....
>>>
>>> Please do not expect binary compatability on the results of these
>>> three tests going forward.
>>>
>>> And: Ideas and Patches always wanted - especially now that the next
>>> release window is open!
>>>
>>> https://github.com/tohojo/flent/issues
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dave Täht
>>> Open Networking needs **Open Source Hardware**
>>>
>>> https://plus.google.com/u/0/+EricRaymond/posts/JqxCe2pFr67
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dave Täht
>> Open Networking needs **Open Source Hardware**
>>
>> https://plus.google.com/u/0/+EricRaymond/posts/JqxCe2pFr67
>
>
>
> -- 
> Dave Täht
> Open Networking needs **Open Source Hardware**
>
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/+EricRaymond/posts/JqxCe2pFr67
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