[Bloat] philosophical question

Bill Sommerfeld wsommerfeld at google.com
Tue May 31 14:07:12 EDT 2011


On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 21:24, George B. <georgeb at 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...



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