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Power impact of debufferbloating

Power impact of debufferbloating

Posted Sep 29, 2011 0:02 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Power impact of debufferbloating by njs
Parent article: LPC: An update on bufferbloat

Indeed: you cannot shape traffic unless/until you are the bottleneck. In other words, policing an empty queue does not much. This makes fixing bufferbloat (or QoS more generally speaking) even more difficult since bottlenecks come and go.


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