Il giorno 27/apr/2015, alle ore 11:20, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <[email protected]> ha scritto:
> Paolo Valente <[email protected]> writes: > >> If there are, could anyone please point me to further reading on these >> aspects? > > Bufferbloat can definitely adversely affect throughput in some cases. > Mainly because it causes throughput to oscillate: when the queue fills, > a lot of data can be dropped at once, causing throughput to drop, which > takes a while to recover. This can degrade aggregate throughput. Having > smart queueing smoothes out the traffic, so the oscillations are lower > and average throughput thus better. > > The effect is most visible when you have several flows sharing a link: > when the (FIFO) queue fills, they will tend to all experience drops at > once, and so all slow down. > Thanks. So, if I understood correctly, average throughput may or may not be affected, but large throughput fluctuations will always occur in the presence of bufferbloat. Sorry for my usual refrain, but … any pointers to tests, results, papers and the like? Thanks, Paolo > -Toke -- Paolo Valente Algogroup Dipartimento di Fisica, Informatica e Matematica Via Campi, 213/B 41125 Modena - Italy homepage: http://algogroup.unimore.it/people/paolo/ _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat
