On 12/19/2012 01:20 PM, Jonathan Morton wrote: > I think we're talking about the "many tabs open" problem. > > But this bothers me as well, actually. Lots of tabs shouldn't affect the > network unless some of the pages in them are actively transferring data > for some reason. I've seen lots of pages that have heavy animation or > Javascript in them, but unless Facebook is even nastier than I was > previously aware of, that doesn't really translate to high network traffic.
That was exactly the point I tried to stress in the post quoted by Neil; An open tab does not automatically translate to network traffic, i.e., there is not necessarily causality between "open tab" and "Skype problem". The pure existence of open tabs doesn't say anything; they must trigger data transfers, there is no network impact otherwise. If at all and how web transfers impair voice flows depends on a whole lot of other aspects. I often observe Javascript rendering in Firefox to fully load one CPU core, which sometimes interferes with Skype calls on my systems. But that's not a networking problem and not related to bufferbloat. Oliver _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat
