grenville armitage <[email protected]> writes: > On 03/20/2011 21:45, Jonathan Morton wrote: > [..] >> Here are some numbers I got from a test over a switched 100base-TX LAN: >> >> Upload Capacity: 1018 KiB/s >> Download Capacity: 2181 KiB/s >> Link Responsiveness: 2 Hz >> Flow Smoothness: 1 Hz >> >> Horrible, isn't it? I deliberately left these machines with standard >> configurations in order to show that. > > Perhaps a tangential 2 cents from me, but I'm unclear how helpful > Hertz is as a unit of measurement for the challenge of raising > awareness of bufferbloat. I suspect data networking people (whether > network designers, admins, product managers, etc) don't think of IP > networks as having characteristics measured in Hertz. And I'd imagine > most ISP helpdesks wont know how to parse customer complaints along > the lines of "your service doesn't give me enough Hertz". Perhaps > your tool could also add a parenthetical 'translation' of the > responsiveness and smoothness values into something expressed in > milliseconds?
Concur. And resolution past 3 significant digits from there seems possible with posix timers. I regret that I have not had time to look over the code yet this weekend. How'd they do debloated? > > cheers, > gja > _______________________________________________ > Bloat-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat-devel -- Dave Taht http://nex-6.taht.net _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat
