[Bloat] philosophical question

[Rick Jones]

On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 11:07 -0700, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> 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...

Definitely.

One of these days I really should write the "Farragut" congestion
control module - "Damn the losses, full speed ahead" :)

rick jones