Starlink has bufferbloat. Bad.
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From: Bruce Perens <bruce@perens.com>
To: Eugene Y Chang <eugene.chang@ieee.org>
Cc: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>,
	 Dave Taht via Starlink <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Starlink] It's still the starlink latency...
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 13:35:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK2MWOspNOuMXg7u7XdZ5ufsq-1PizVqdnKsPL81niRsy1WrHw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39E525B8-D356-4F76-82FF-F1F0B3183908@ieee.org>

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On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 1:19 PM Eugene Y Chang <eugene.chang@ieee.org>
wrote:

> You already know this. Bufferbloat is a symptom and not the cause.
> Bufferbloat grows when there are (1) periods of low or no bandwidth or (2)
> periods of insufficient bandwidth (aka network congestion).
>
> If I understand this correctly, just a software update cannot make
> bufferbloat go away. It might improve the speed of recovery (e.g. throw
> away all time sensitive UDP messages).
>

This is not my understanding.

Bufferbloat is caused by too much buffering in your host, the endpoint, and
all intermediate nodes. As a result, they feed packets into the network
faster than all of the intermediate nodes can pass them on. And then your
latency-sensitive packet gets stuck at the end of those buffers because
nobody across the network honors quality-of-service markings in the packet
or even uses them honestly.

Dave can no doubt say more.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-09-26 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-21 18:35 Dave Taht
2022-09-22 11:41 ` Andrew Crane
2022-09-22 12:01   ` Mike Puchol
2022-09-22 13:46     ` warren ponder
2022-09-22 15:07       ` Dave Taht
2022-09-22 15:26         ` Dave Taht
2022-09-26 15:20 ` Livingood, Jason
2022-09-26 15:29   ` Dave Taht
2022-09-26 15:57     ` Sebastian Moeller
2022-09-26 16:21     ` Dave Taht
2022-09-26 16:32       ` Bruce Perens
2022-09-26 19:59         ` Eugene Chang
2022-09-26 20:04           ` Bruce Perens
2022-09-26 20:14             ` Ben Greear
2022-09-26 20:24               ` Bruce Perens
2022-09-26 20:32                 ` Dave Taht
2022-09-26 20:36                   ` Bruce Perens
2022-09-26 20:47                 ` Ben Greear
2022-09-26 20:19             ` Eugene Y Chang
2022-09-26 20:28               ` Dave Taht
2022-09-26 20:32                 ` Bruce Perens
2022-09-26 20:35               ` Bruce Perens [this message]
2022-09-26 20:48               ` David Lang
2022-09-26 20:54                 ` Eugene Y Chang
2022-09-26 21:01                   ` Sebastian Moeller
2022-09-26 21:10                     ` Eugene Y Chang
2022-09-26 21:20                       ` Sebastian Moeller
2022-09-26 21:35                         ` Eugene Y Chang
2022-09-26 21:44                           ` David Lang
2022-09-26 21:44                           ` Bruce Perens
2022-09-27  0:35                             ` Dave Taht
2022-09-27  0:55                               ` Bruce Perens
2022-09-27  1:12                                 ` Dave Taht
2022-09-27  4:06                               ` Eugene Y Chang
2022-09-27  3:50                             ` Eugene Y Chang
2022-09-27  7:09                               ` Sebastian Moeller
2022-09-27 22:46                                 ` Eugene Y Chang
2022-09-28  9:54                                   ` Sebastian Moeller
2022-09-28 18:49                                     ` Eugene Y Chang
2022-09-26 21:22                       ` David Lang
2022-09-26 21:29                         ` Sebastian Moeller
2022-09-27  3:47                           ` Eugene Y Chang
2022-09-27  6:36                             ` Sebastian Moeller
2022-09-27 13:55                               ` Dave Taht
2022-09-28  0:20                                 ` Eugene Y Chang
2022-09-26 21:02                   ` Bruce Perens
2022-09-26 21:14                     ` Dave Taht
2022-09-26 21:10                   ` Dave Taht
2022-09-26 21:28                     ` warren ponder
2022-09-26 21:34                       ` Bruce Perens
2022-09-27 16:14                       ` Dave Taht
2022-09-26 21:17                   ` David Lang
2022-09-29  9:10 David Fernández
2022-09-29 19:34 ` Eugene Chang
2022-10-17 13:50 David Fernández
2022-10-17 16:53 ` David Fernández

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