Re: [Flent-users] Announcing Flent v0.15.0

2016-10-04 Thread Dave Taht
You are a master of understatement in the below. I forwarded the announcement around a bit. Do we need to hire a PR flack to add excitement to future releases, describing how flent can solve network problems, AND world hunger, AND automate the production of dozens of academic papers? Somewhat rel

[Flent-users] some ideas for more tcp stats for flent

2016-12-01 Thread Dave Taht
http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2016-11-30/linux-bcc-tcplife.html also the bcc collection is interesting. -- Dave Täht Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software! http://blog.cerowrt.org ___ Flent-users mailing list Flent-users@

[Flent-users] flent testers wanted prior to next release

2016-12-20 Thread Dave Taht
Toke has been busy adding new features to the flent network test tool. I consider it *almost* stable enough for a new release. Some of the development has been focused on making the flent-gui much faster and more responsive (as our data sets have got larger), others on providing better default comm

Re: [Flent-users] [Cerowrt-devel] flent testers wanted prior to next release

2016-12-20 Thread Dave Taht
I am cutting all the other lists off of this... yes, I have had to patch netperf for more recent versions of gcc - getting rid of an inline, as I recall. Haven't tried to build it recently. I can go look. I feel your pain re: RHEL and am glad you are chasing after fedora/etc. On Tue, Dec 20, 201

Re: [Flent-users] [Cerowrt-devel] flent testers wanted prior to next release

2016-12-21 Thread Dave Taht
gt; >> That was what I needed to do for clang. >> >> -Aaron >> >> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 18:16 Dave Taht wrote: >>> >>> I am cutting all the other lists off of this... >>> >>> yes, I have had to patch netperf for more recent vers

Re: [Flent-users] [Bloat] flent testers wanted prior to next release

2016-12-21 Thread Dave Taht
wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Dave Taht wrote: >> >> Active public servers include: >> >> flent-freemont.bufferbloat.net >> ( this is colocated with flent-bbr-west which has bbr on by default - an >> interesting test might be testing both these

[Flent-users] yea... people are "getting" statistics

2016-12-22 Thread Dave Taht
https://www.vividcortex.com/blog/why-percentiles-dont-work-the-way-you-think -- Dave Täht Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software! http://blog.cerowrt.org ___ Flent-users mailing list Flent-users@flent.org http://flent.org/mail

Re: [Flent-users] Problem with flent on low bandwidth, badly bloated path.

2017-01-05 Thread Dave Taht
this is not flent per se' blowing up, but your bloated path blowing up, probably. :) try a simpler test (tcp_upload or tcp_download) to start with, then the nastier ones. On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Jim Gettys wrote: > Note that a simple ping during this run reports >42 seconds. > > I shou

Re: [Flent-users] Problem with flent on low bandwidth, badly bloated path.

2017-01-05 Thread Dave Taht
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 8:15 AM, Jim Gettys wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Dave Taht wrote: >> >> this is not flent per se' blowing up, but your bloated path blowing >> up, probably. :) > > > I ran ping myself during the test. The RTT's re

[Flent-users] simulating game traffic one day, mayube

2017-01-29 Thread Dave Taht
http://gafferongames.com/2016/07/21/launch-of-libyojimbo/ -- Dave Täht Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software! http://blog.cerowrt.org ___ Flent-users mailing list Flent-users@flent.org http://flent.org/mailman/listinfo/flent-

[Flent-users] bpf tracing has come a really long way

2017-02-09 Thread Dave Taht
https://github.com/iovisor/bcc -- Dave Täht Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software! http://blog.cerowrt.org ___ Flent-users mailing list Flent-users@flent.org http://flent.org/mailman/listinfo/flent-users_flent.org

Re: [Flent-users] [tohojo/flent] packet loss stats (#106)

2017-11-18 Thread Dave Taht
Of all the codecs out there, I like opus best. (It's deeply in webrtc). g711, and gsm, used to be the most common, but I've been out of this field a long time. ___ Flent-users mailing list Flent-users@flent.org http://flent.org/mailman/listinfo/flent-use

Re: [Flent-users] [tohojo/flent] packet loss stats (#106)

2017-11-20 Thread Dave Taht
On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 5:21 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen < notificati...@github.com> wrote: > Pete Heist writes: > > >> On Nov 20, 2017, at 1:11 PM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen < > notificati...@github.com> wrote: > >> > >> Pete Heist writes: > >> > >> > G.711 can be simulated today with `-i 20ms -l 1

Re: [Flent-users] [tohojo/flent] packet loss stats (#106)

2017-11-20 Thread Dave Taht
A goal for me has been to be able to run Opus at 24 bit, 96Khz, with 2.7ms sampling latency. Actually getting 8 channels of that through a loaded box would be mahvelous. On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Dave Taht wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 5:21 AM, Toke Høiland-

[Flent-users] irtt sleep test

2017-12-06 Thread Dave Taht
good test. I wish I'd thought of it. Life below a ms is a PITA. For comparison, an aarch64 and an x86_64: root@nanopineo2:~# irtt sleep Testing sleep accuracy... Sleep DurationMean Error % Error 1ns 13.353µs 1335336.9 10ns 14.34µs

[Flent-users] anyone for quic?

2018-01-30 Thread Dave Taht
https://github.com/lucas-clemente/quic-go -- Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC http://www.teklibre.com Tel: 1-669-226-2619 ___ Flent-users mailing list Flent-users@flent.org http://flent.org/mailman/listinfo/flent-users_flent.org

[Flent-users] a nice endorsement

2018-08-25 Thread Dave Taht
" Flent has been an invaluable network analysis tool while performing these experiments and has become my goto application for testing networking performance after making changes/optimizations/tweaks etc. I have used it for testing both WAN performance as well as LAN performance at 10Gbit across th

[Flent-users] MIT's bufferbloat class

2018-09-20 Thread Dave Taht
It's a bit flawed - not using https, nor a reasonable number of http assets, averaging the http result rather than plotting it also, with min/max... nor using flent, nor publishing their source widely so that I could fiddle with setting up mininet to verify it produces correct results... but, it's

Re: [Flent-users] IRTT for Android

2018-10-08 Thread Dave Taht
How widely available is netperf (netserver) for android? I know it's in the ecosystem... On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 8:32 AM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote: > > Louie Lu writes: > > > Not now, it is in my plan to update > > , the goal is to make this app act like magiciperf*, which accept command > > li

[Flent-users] new flent server in singapore

2018-10-11 Thread Dave Taht
Linode is making available nanoservers for 5/month. (was paying 20/month two years ago)... A) flent-singapore.taht.net. I would actually like flent.org to seize control of all these domains... B) linode's kernel ships and makes available bbr by default now. It's not even a kernel module. C) on th

Re: [Flent-users] new flent server in singapore

2018-10-11 Thread Dave Taht
and, oh, yea, fq_codel is the default qdisc. I really wonder how much of the world is now running it. ___ Flent-users mailing list Flent-users@flent.org http://flent.org/mailman/listinfo/flent-users_flent.org

Re: [Flent-users] IRTT for Android

2018-10-12 Thread Dave Taht
for it. how much app is needed to wrap for: system("netserver -N"); ? seriously. I have no idea. we've had anyone with any chops at android... and I also confess being curious if the babel 1.8.3 daemon worked on android? > > Thanks, > Louie. > Dave Taht 於 2018年10月9日

[Flent-users] the perverse universe of ubuntu 18.04

2018-10-27 Thread Dave Taht
so I just upgraded to ubuntu 18.04 finally and tried to get flent running. flent's in toke's ppa... installs irtt and flent... no netperf in their default repos the multiverse/universe version is 2.6. netperf 2.7 won't build due to a missing makeinfo utility that's also in the universe repo

Re: [Flent-users] irtt on flent-london

2019-01-11 Thread Dave Taht
I just turned it on again (I think it had crashed). I would like to enable irtt fully across the flent network, and with liberal defaults (longer tests, shorter intervals). Can you suggest a useful set of defaults to use? Another option is to make several versions available on different port numb

Re: [Flent-users] irtt on flent-london

2019-01-25 Thread Dave Taht
I guess so... send me a ssh key? On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 12:26 AM Pete Heist wrote: > > > > On Jan 11, 2019, at 5:31 PM, Pete Heist wrote: > > > >> On Jan 11, 2019, at 5:00 PM, Dave Taht wrote: > >> > >> I just turned it on again (I think it had c

Re: [Flent-users] IRTT UDP-lite support

2019-03-08 Thread Dave Taht
My principal desires for udp-lite support in both netperf and irtt is that it is a udp alternative that actually works, at least on linux and some forms of bsd, over ipv6, and so far as I can tell (without serious testing) ipv4, even through nat. UDP port space is especially constrained in light o

Re: [Flent-users] IRTT UDP-lite support

2019-03-08 Thread Dave Taht
I note your "measure corruption" thing is a cool idea, I'd not thunk of that too! ___ Flent-users mailing list Flent-users@flent.org http://flent.org/mailman/listinfo/flent-users_flent.org

[Flent-users] duplicating the BBRv2 tests at iccrg in flent?

2019-04-05 Thread Dave Taht
I see from the iccrg preso at 7 minutes 55 s in, that there is a test described as: 20 BBRv2 flows starting each 100ms, 1G, 1ms Linux codel with ECN ce_threshold at 242us sojurn time. I interpret this as 20 flows, starting 100ms apart on a 1G link with a 1ms transit time and linux codel with ce_

Re: [Flent-users] [bbr-dev] duplicating the BBRv2 tests at iccrg in flent?

2019-04-05 Thread Dave Taht
Thanks! On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 5:11 PM Neal Cardwell wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 3:42 AM Dave Taht wrote: >> >> I see from the iccrg preso at 7 minutes 55 s in, that there is a test >> described as: >> >> 20 BBRv2 flows >> starting each 100ms, 1G

Re: [Flent-users] [bbr-dev] duplicating the BBRv2 tests at iccrg in flent?

2019-04-06 Thread Dave Taht
> With fq_codel and the same ECN marking threshold (fq_codel ce_threshold > 242us), we see slightly smoother fairness properties (not surprising) but > with slightly higher latency. > > The basic summary: > > retransmits: 0 > flow throughput: [46.77 .. 51.48] > RTT samples at various percentiles:

[Flent-users] tunable delays for tcp

2019-06-13 Thread Dave Taht
this commit from the immortal edumazet arrived this morning in net-next: https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg577452.html ... > Adding delays to TCP flows is crucial for studying behavior > of TCP stacks, including congestion control modules. > > Linux offers netem module, but it has unpracti

[Flent-users] an sce enabled flent server is now up in India, testers wanted

2019-07-30 Thread Dave Taht
The new linode data center finally went up last week in mumbai. Aside from the ones in singapore and japan, this is the furthest "out" of any flent servers we have. sce-mumbai.taht.net # name might change Right now this server is just under test!! it's the first kernel I've had up with spectre mi

Re: [Flent-users] Running flent in isolated namespace

2020-01-24 Thread Dave Taht
rrul, not rrule On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 12:03 PM Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Am trying to run flent in a network namespace and it won't work. > Seems to demand connection to the Internet for DNS. > > The scenario is run net server in one namespace, and flent in another. > Forward packets out an

Re: [Flent-users] [tohojo/flent] Customized test displaying error (#203)

2020-04-03 Thread Dave Taht
sudo python3 setup.py install or make install flent is actually measuring rate differences, it does not actually assign bandwidth. So your result - where the first flow grabs more bandwidth than the others, is an artifact of your queuing (probably fifo and tcp cubic). The first flow wins. In the c

Re: [Flent-users] [tohojo/flent] Customized test displaying error (#203)

2020-04-28 Thread Dave Taht
Just because I'm dumb, why are you fiddling with non-standard dscp markings in the first place? I've been trying to get the folk testing this set for a while now, https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tsvwg-rtcweb-qos-18 they are essentially supported in sch_cake's 4 tier model. On Tue, Apr 2

Re: [Flent-users] [tohojo/flent] Customized test displaying error (#203)

2020-04-28 Thread Dave Taht
good to know those markings, thx. So far as I recall riverbed ships cake. Can you confirm? It's easy to modify the prio table but feedback as to what is in use elsewhere has always been lacking. On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 10:41 AM olg33 wrote: > Right, using standard markings would make everyone

Re: [Flent-users] [tohojo/flent] Customized test displaying error (#203)

2020-04-28 Thread Dave Taht
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 1:03 PM olg33 wrote: > Ohh, right, the markings_map is only used for irtt and iperf, for > netperf the values are just passed directly through. Totally forgot > about that. I guess I could fix that, but TBH I'm not terribly keen on > supporting non-standard diffserv markin

[Flent-users] I guess we need to update some openwrt stuf

2020-06-07 Thread Dave Taht
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/fq-codel-fast-helpers-test-and-testers/63037/60 -- "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Mother Nature cannot be fooled" - Richard Feynman d...@taht.net CTO, TekLibre, LLC Tel: 1-831-435-0729 __

[Flent-users] D* tcp looks pretty good, on paper

2021-01-07 Thread Dave Taht
See: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.14996.pdf Things I really like: * they used flent * Using "variance" as the principal signal. This is essentially one of the great unpublished and unanalyzed improvements on the minstrel algorithm as well * Conventional ecn response * outperforms bbr on variable li

[Flent-users] found in flent

2021-05-01 Thread Dave Taht
I am hoping to finally get some time to participate in revising the wikipedia articles soon. I've also been dusting off old pieces that could use revision. I'd actually thought I'd published this one: https://github.com/dtaht/blog-cerowrt/blob/master/content/post/found_in_flent.md But didn't. Y

[Flent-users] centos 8 and cake and flent

2021-05-06 Thread Dave Taht
Currently centos (and I assume redhat) is at 4.18. Cake went into 4.19 so I assume the next major redhat/centos releases will have it. Is there a yum/rpm expert in the house? flent does not appear to be packaged up for this (?), neither is netperf or irtt. Is there a repo I could use? tc is not s

[Flent-users] What other magic shims exist for pyqt?

2022-03-09 Thread Dave Taht
"ERROR: Unable to find a usable Qt version." On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 2:08 PM Nathan Owens wrote: > > Yea, I tried all that, and followed the directions to install on my mac > freshly, no luck! > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 11:05 AM Dave Taht wrote: >> >> a

[Flent-users] an rtt_fair test?

2022-04-16 Thread Dave Taht
if anyone has a bit of spare time this holiday, I'd like to collect a few results from various networks around the web this week, not just on the turris. Example command line and outputs here: https://forum.turris.cz/t/sqm-on-turris-flent-benchmarks/17048/ -- I tried to build a better future, a

[Flent-users] Re: [Starlink] an rtt_fair test?

2022-04-17 Thread Dave Taht
fq-quantum 300 > limit 10240 > rate 8mbit > } > upload { > ecn enable > flows 1024 > fq-quantum 300 > limit 10240 > rate 600kbit > target 15ms > }

[Flent-users] Re: [Starlink] an rtt_fair test?

2022-04-17 Thread Dave Taht
that they make backlog, packet and ,drop statistics easily available across their OSes. I'm pretty sure that at higher bandwidths their default settings for SFQ and pfifo are too low... > > The OneDrive link to my flent files should still be active in that post as > well. > >

[Flent-users] putting a floor under flent

2022-05-08 Thread Dave Taht
I am in the middle of writing a modest proposal for the NSF, to put more of an organisational floor under it, and am wondering if there are any other flent users out there, willing to submit a "letter of collaboration" as part of it? I'm also kind of curious how many hits per month flent.org gets?

[Flent-users] Re: putting a floor under flent

2022-05-08 Thread Dave Taht
ending the money on good stuff, which I'm *really good at*. But certainly I agree with the overall thrust being to get some sort of administrative help for the things we don't do well. On Sun, May 8, 2022 at 8:23 AM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote: > > Dave Taht writes: > > >

[Flent-users] coaxing an rpm figure out of flent

2022-05-15 Thread Dave Taht
Just filed this feature request over here: https://github.com/network-quality/goresponsiveness/issues/19 -- FQ World Domination pending: https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/state_of_fq_codel/ Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC ___ Flent-users mailing list -- flent

[Flent-users] Re: Legend only once

2022-08-09 Thread Dave Taht
OT... Those latency numbers are spectacular. Any hint as to why? :) On Tue, Aug 9, 2022, 12:48 PM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote: > Erik Taraldsen writes: > > > I'm trying to automate testing and graphing with flent. For my purposes > it > > probably will make sense to use CDF and box plots. Ho

[Flent-users] tcp-info daemon

2022-08-30 Thread Dave Taht
https://github.com/m-lab/tcp-info/ -- FQ World Domination pending: https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/state_of_fq_codel/ Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC ___ Flent-users mailing list -- flent-users@flent.org To unsubscribe send an email to flent-users-le...@flen

[Flent-users] Re: Legend only once

2022-09-09 Thread Dave Taht
Hopefully we mostly fixed the mt76 chips recently, https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6973288514096414720/ ax is still a pita On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 10:59 PM Erik Taraldsen wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 10:01 PM Dave Taht wrote: >> >> OT... Thos

[Flent-users] some breakages and a big test

2022-09-10 Thread Dave Taht
I've been working on a script that exercises some old tests. My goal was to get something that ran in under an hour that got a comprehensive viewpoint. I'm terrible at python, so I do things in shell, rather than the batch facility. Anyway, presently several of the more obscure tests break in thi

[Flent-users] starlink plot

2022-09-10 Thread Dave Taht
seeing bbr not get out of slow start, then get in a fight with cubic, is pretty hilarious... -- FQ World Domination pending: https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/state_of_fq_codel/ Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC ___ Flent-users mailing list -- flent-users@flent.

[Flent-users] flent for 802.11s

2022-10-14 Thread Dave Taht
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9887655 -- This song goes out to all the folk that thought Stadia would work: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dtaht_the-mushroom-song-activity-698135607352320-FXtz Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC ___ Flent-u

[Flent-users] histograms and animations

2022-12-22 Thread Dave Taht
I really enjoyed jim roskin's talk below, and especially the animations of histogram progress over time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uaaCiyJCFA&t=1120s I have largely relied on static cdf plots to accomplish the same thing, but I can'd help but wonder what it would take to produce an animati

[Flent-users] flaws and features of flent

2023-01-15 Thread Dave Taht
A rather long, meandering piece: https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/flaws_in_flent/ -- This song goes out to all the folk that thought Stadia would work: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dtaht_the-mushroom-song-activity-698135607352320-FXtz Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC _

[Flent-users] Re: flaws and features of flent

2023-01-16 Thread Dave Taht
On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 11:14 PM Sebastian Moeller wrote: > > Hi Dave, > > On 16 January 2023 02:52:45 CET, Dave Taht wrote: > >A rather long, meandering piece: > > > >https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/flaws_in_flent/ > > I think 'Flent’s default sampling r

[Flent-users] Re: flaws and features of flent

2023-01-16 Thread Dave Taht
nd I have long regarded "3rd world" and "less developed", as insulting, also. I have no idea how well george carlin translates into other cultures, but he is a hero of mine, as is the BOFH. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o25I2fzFGoY&themeRefresh=1 > > Regards >