[Bloat] infinite queue

[Neil Davies]

There was an idea (I think from the 1970’s) that is refinement of this - isometric flow control. 

I would say that the key notion (expressed here) is that the ‘work in progress’ is finite - the isometric concept is a refinement on that, in that it says “there is some number”.

Also, subtly implicit in this article is that the best you can aspire to is 80% loading. Using the isometric concept (carefully!) I’ve help create system that can predictably operate at high 90% loading. 

Limiting the work-in-progress ensures a bound on the response-delay.

Neil

> On 11 May 2023, at 00:39, Dave Taht via Bloat <bloat at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
> 
> nice blog post from someone new about the infinite queue problem, with
> a clean example:
> 
> https://brooker.co.za/blog/2023/05/10/open-closed.html
> 
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