[Bloat] Network computing article on bloat

[Dave Taht]

"Big Buffers Bad. Small Buffers Good."

"*Some* packet loss is essential for the correct operation of the Internet"

are two of the memes I try to propagate, in their simplicity. Even
then there are so many qualifiers to both of those that the core
message gets lost.



On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Dave Hart <davehart at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 17:05 UTC, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Not bad, although I can live without the title. Coins a new-ish phrase
>> "insertion latency"
>>
>> http://www.networkcomputing.com/end-to-end-apm/bufferbloat-and-the-collapse-of-the-internet.php
>
> The piece ends with a paragraph claiming preventing packet loss is
> addressing a more fundamental problem which contributes to
> bufferbloat.  As long as the writer and readers believe packet loss is
> an unmitigated evil, the battle is lost.  More encouraging would have
> been a statement that packet loss is preferable to excessive queueing
> and a required TCP feedback signal when ECN isn't in play.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave Hart
>



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