[Bloat] Best practices for paced TCP on Linux?

Neil Davies neil.davies at pnsol.com
Sat Apr 7 16:27:27 EDT 2012


Fred

thinking on this more the 'g' (the function of RTT) is something like 'min' - on the assumption that the path doesn't change during the transfer - that represents the immutable part of the end-to-end delay, the 'inflight' buffering.

Neil

On 7 Apr 2012, at 16:25, Dave Taht wrote:

> The test HD tcp stream is up at
> 
> http://cesur.tg12.gathering.org:9094/
> 
> on both ipv6 and ipv4. They are streaming anywhere up to 1000 users,
> and there is an astounding amount of ipv6 present - 73% of the room
> has an ipv6 address.
> 
> I took some captures from california last night, they were
> interesting. I think a few more captures would also be interesting.
> 
> One indicated throttling at the isp at t+60 seconds, the others showed
> stuff dropping out for large periods of time. (170ms rtt here!)
> 
> I'd like to look into what percentage of the failures I observed
> happened on the wifi hop vs the ethernet gateway
> since then many changes where made, and I'm low on sleep. (what do
> geeks do on a friday night?)
> 
> I don't know if they are still trying sfqred or qfq in production -
> they worked! - but had little effect (as is to be kind of expected
> with the instantaneous queue length being so short and bandwidth so
> high on their first and nearest hops....)
> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Le samedi 07 avril 2012 à 00:21 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson a écrit :
>> 
>>> I'll be perfectly happy just doing _something_; I don't need a perfect
>>> solution. We have one more night of streaming, and then the event is over. :-)
> 
> 
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