[Cake] ER-X now running cake, thanks for the help. :)

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke at toke.dk
Fri May 5 09:59:50 EDT 2017


<erik.taraldsen at telenor.com> writes:

>> Fra: Sebastian Moeller <moeller0 at gmx.de>
>
>> .. snip <good explanations and tips> 
>> One problem with the unelastic load is that as far as I can tell no flow on the open internet is 
>> allows/assumed to behave like that (isn’t the default tcp-friendly, and inelastic DOS traffic is 
>> essentially out-lawed?)
>
> You are right in that single stream udp without any feedback is a
> quite unrealistic load. It is however usually a good indicator of
> possible trouble with bufferbloat. When I get delays in the multiple
> seconds range there usually is no point in running more realistic
> tests such as flent, so I tend to start with that udp test before
> setting up a lab. Current record found in production systems is 34
> seconds.

How are you measuring latency in this case?

-Toke


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