On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:06:38 +0300 Sami Farin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I got tired of getting 15% packet loss [1] when doing > lots of DNS lookups on my ADSL link... > And that was even when limiting outgoing DNS traffic > to 200 Kbit/s (ADSL modem upstream speed is 512 Kbit/s). > > I had used tcatm patch with 2.6.16 kernel and I was > happy with it. > Now I patched Linux kernel 2.6.22 and iproute-2.6.22 > for tcatm. Seems to work (TM). Only HTB tested. > > Now I get 0% packet loss when doing lots of DNS queries > (270pps) and DNS traffic is limited with > HTB/ESFQ to 504Kbit/s. I used "tc class add ... atm overhead 20" > but I am not sure is it really 20 (Sonera in Finland). > Without tcatm I had to have there 420Kbit and it still sucked. > > I keep patches at > http://safari.iki.fi/tcatm/ > > I read one thread from this year where there were objections > about tcatm's some parts and then discussion petered out... > I and probably Russell Stuart would probably like to get > these patches fixed so that everyone is pleased > and these can be incorporated into kernel some year, > because I believe ADSL is very popular nowadays ( =) ) > and people would probably like if traffic control was > actually usable for them ( =) )... > > [1] ping -A 80.223.96.1 My concern is that this would cause the existing users of TBF and other qdisc's. If you don't choose ATM do you get the same values? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
