[LibreQoS] ookla speedtest results?

Dave Taht dave.taht at gmail.com
Mon Oct 24 11:09:33 EDT 2022


On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 8:02 AM Robert Chacón via LibreQoS
<libreqos at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>
> I can run an Ookla test in the middle of the night with LibreQoS off for a bit.

Groovy.

> From what I recall - without Libre we see download bloat of 300ms or so. With Libre, it's gone. On waveform we see 0ms added bloat each direction for most clients.

The numbers report by speedtest bounce around a lot, and they tend to
pick a lower number as a final result than I'd
like. If there's a way to capture a movie of it...
>
> And I like the "monitor only" mode idea.
> Perhaps we could create the HTB tree, but just not attach the CAKE qdisc?
> Technically even HTB could reduce latency by itself on overloaded APs , so it wouldn't be true passive monitoring, but it would allow us to compare the before/after of CAKE while still having qdiscs we can point cpumap-pping to.
>
> Alternatively, maybe we could use eBPF PPing just for this passive monitoring period?
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 8:02 AM Herbert Wolverson via LibreQoS <libreqos at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>>
>> Are you looking for a shaped result? That'll show "whatever bandwidth
>> is left on the sector" without Libre, and around the customer's paid-for
>> target with Libre (hopefully!).
>>
>> One thing Preseem does well is that their onboarding process includes
>> "leave it in monitoring-only mode" for a week, gathering data before you
>> pull the switch (although most ISPs I've talked to just pull the switch...)
>> It's quite enlightening to see a before/after, even with only FQ_CODEL
>> as the shaper.
>>
>> We could probably do something similar with a "monitor only" mode that
>> doesn't enable any queues (is there a TC equivalent to "dummy" on
>> FreeBSD?).
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 8:52 AM Dave Taht via LibreQoS <libreqos at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am curious if anyone here has speedtest results with libreqos on and
>>> off, and can send a screen shot?
>>>
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