LPC: An update on bufferbloat

In that case, some applications won't care at all about latency because they are doing a large file transfer, and so as long as the delays are not long enough to cause timeouts (30 seconds+), they don't care. These applicatons want to dump as much data into the pipe as possible so that the total throughput is as high as possible.

the problem comes when you have another application that does care about latency, or only has a small amount of data to transmit. This application's packets go into the queue behind the packets for the application that doesn't care about latency, and since the queue is fifo, the application can time out (for single digit seconds timeouts) before it's packets get sent.

since different applications care about different things, this is never going to be fixed in the applications.