[PLUG] internet buffer bloat

Bill Barry bill at billbarry.org
Tue Sep 6 16:40:58 UTC 2016


On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Galen Seitz <galens at seitzassoc.com> wrote:

> Here's fascinating blog post by Jim Gettys, one of the creators of the
> X Window System, and a Bell Labs employee.  In it he describes how the
> internet is being crippled by excessive buffering.
> https://gettys.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/whose-house-is-of-
> glasse-must-not-throw-stones-at-another/
>
> Here's the corresponding LWN article.
> http://lwn.net/Articles/418918/#Comments
>
> --
> Galen Seitz
> galens at seitzassoc.com
>
>
Some good work has been done since this article came out.  Version 15 of
openwrt has available a couple of packages which implement a system called
Smart Queue Management that does a good job of mitigating bufferbloat.  The
packages are sqm-scripts and a corresponding luci-app-sqm.

Here is a page about installing and tuning them.
https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/sqm

There is even a youtube video showing the installation procedure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvYhifdQ92Q

Bill



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