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Nichols, Jacobson: Controlling Queue Delay

Nichols, Jacobson: Controlling Queue Delay

Posted May 9, 2012 21:57 UTC (Wed) by jg (subscriber, #17537)
In reply to: Nichols, Jacobson: Controlling Queue Delay by bredelings
Parent article: Nichols, Jacobson: Controlling Queue Delay

Once you have an effective AQM (e.g. CoDel), the buffer length no longer makes much of a difference, to first order. Second order, it gets more subtle.

You certainly don't want to artificially under buffer; that can have serious performance consequences.


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