[Bloat] The challenge

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Thu May 10 04:30:02 EDT 2012


> It is counter-intuitive to keep a queue filled with packets that you might
> drop later - as an engineer you tend to think it is more efficient to drop a
> packet *before* it starts to consume space in your precious queue.  This is
> a good deal of what needs to be solved in wireless drivers ...

On the other hand, if your problem is buffer bloat, maybe the queue space 
isn't so precious.

Yes, I too tend to think that way, but maybe it will sink in if I see a few 
reminders.  Thanks.


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