[Bloat] philosophical question

[Jim Gettys]

On 05/31/2011 03:17 PM, Rick Jones wrote:
> 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" :)
No need to bother: web servers and clients are already doing this to us, 
with the N connections crossed by the initial congestion window changes :-(.
                     - Jim