* Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> [2014-08-22 13:51]:
> On 2014-08-22, Henning Brauer <hb-open...@ml.bsws.de> wrote:
> > * Federico Giannici <giann...@neomedia.it> [2014-08-22 09:51]:
> >> On 08/22/14 08:22, Henning Brauer wrote:
> >> >* Adam Thompson <athom...@athompso.net> [2014-08-21 19:13]:
> >> >>Unless I've mis-understood all the emails and reports about this, it 
> >> >>affects low-bandwidth queues, not low-bandwidth interfaces.
> >> >>In other words, limiting traffic to 50Mbps on a 1Gb link will work fine, 
> >> >>limiting it to 50kbps on the same link will not.
> >> >>Yes/no?
> >> >pretty much.
> >> I can imagine that it could be rather complicated to give the exact 
> >> numbers,
> >> but can you give me an idea where the problem comes from, and maybe where I
> >> can find more info about it?
> > kinda obvious: BW measurement and go/holdoff decision is (at most) once per
> > tick. ticks @ HZ, aka 100 ticks per second with HZ=100. If the NIC can
> > transfer "too much" data within one tick, the bw shaping becomes
> > inaccurate. Obviously worse the bigger the difference between
> > interface speed and desired queue speed is.
> Any idea why this was so much less of a problem with altq?

it wasn't... the hfsc core was the same, and cbq worked exactly the same
way too.

People might not have paid as much attention? I dunno.

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