[Bloat] bloat at gigE

Steinar H. Gunderson sgunderson at bigfoot.com
Wed Sep 23 08:22:44 EDT 2015


On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 07:10:33AM -0500, Benjamin Cronce wrote:
> The upload wasn't even saturated. Probably why upload bloat was very low.
> Large bloat on the download just shows you the server really can push more
> than 1Gb. 200ms bloat with 913Mb down is about 20MiB of buffer. That's
> insane! That's about 20x more buffer than my entire 24 port 1Gb Procurve
> managed switch. What kind of network equipment has that much buffer?

When I ran the bufferbloat test last time, I got pretty much exactly 250 ms
bloat at 1 GigE. That's ~30 MB. The equipment at the other end (where I
suppose the bloat was) was a Juniper MX960.

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