[Bloat] philosophical question

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

> So there have been no packets dropped and there is no backlog and the
> path is clean all the way to the Internet without any congestion in my
> network (the path is currently about 5 times bigger than current
> bandwidth utilization and is 10GigE all the way from the switch to
> which the server is connected all the way to the Internet).  Any
> congestion would be somewhere upstream from me.

If you're not congested, then don't bother.  Just reduce the amount of
bufferring as much as it will go without reducing throughput, and be
happy.

If you see congestion, then try to put an AQM at the bottleneck node.
If you cannot do that, you'll need to artificially throttle your server
(using tbf or htb, if Linux) in order to move the bottleneck, with all
the comfplexity and inefficiency that this entails.

-- Juliusz