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> From: David Collier-Brown <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [aqm] draft-ksubram-lmap-router-buffer-sizes
> Date: October 31, 2014 at 11:03:39 AM PDT
> To: <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: <[email protected]>
> 
> It's OK, we just need to write it up as informational material and cite it a 
> lot. Maybe as an appendix to a congestion-related rfc, maybe as a little 
> bitty one on it's own.
> 
> Having said that, I guess I've just volunteered to write it.
> 
> Therefor: If someone says where it should go, so people will find it when 
> looking for the expected behaviour, I'll compose a draft and help make it fit.
> 
> --dave
> 
> On 10/31/2014 10:58 AM, Daniel Havey wrote:
>> Yeah, I have encountered this type of problem in many forms.  It seems that 
>> there are fundamental misunderstandings of the problem.  This seems 
>> prevalent in expert networking communities from people who have the 
>> knowledge, but, perhaps have not thought the problem through thoroughly.
>> 
>> I guess we are just working at cross-purposes with other communities.  
>> Perhaps there is no cure for this problem and maybe we just have to accept 
>> and embrace it.
>> 
>> 
>> ...Daniel
>> 
>> On Thursday, October 30, 2014 7:00 PM, David Collier-Brown 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Yup: author makes a classic, and I fear common, wrong assumption about 
>> tradeoffs in queuing systems.
>> 
>> Latency is minimized throughout the operating range if a queue is not 
>> allowed to form. TCP consciously sees a queue as congestion and avoids 
>> having it.
>> 
>> Bufferboat causes queuing, and degrades both (low) latency and
>>       throughput, trying to  drive the link toward congestive collapse.
>>       The worst of all possible worlds!
>> 
>> In this case it also tries to drive Dave Taht's circulation system
>>       into collapse, which is doubly ungood.
>> 
>> --dave
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 10/30/2014 09:49 AM, Dave Taht wrote:
>> 
>> I didn't get past the first sentence. "The question boils down to quantify 
>> buffer sizes and yet achieve 100%
>> utilization on links with maximum throughput at a feasible cost. " My goal 
>> has always been to have minimal induced latency and reasonable
>> utilization, and also to keep my blood pressure low. Reading further
>> strikes me as damaging to both goals. On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 5:12 AM, Fred 
>> Baker (fred) <[email protected]> wrote:

>>> Folks from AQM may be interested to comment on 
>>> draft-ksubram-lmap-router-buffer-sizes on the lmap list. 
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