[LARTC] Re: [PATCH 2.6] update to network emulation QOS scheduler

[Stephen Hemminger]

On 07 Jul 2004 17:11:39 -0400
jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca> wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 16:58, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> > TBF works but since the sender (on the same local machine) may go over 
> > it's allocation, it will drop packets.
> 
> As should any queue that gets congested.

> > For example, if I use tbf to simulate a slow 33k bits/sec link then 
> > TCP test never
> > completes, it just hangs!  TBF does work for intermediate sizes.
> > 
> > But if I use the pacing simulation it works.
> 
> I am not sure i follow; is this because of the return code from the
> enqueue?

Actually, the problem only occurs if burst is set large (like 2mb).
I think it gets stuck waiting for that much data.