As a result of the present discussions, I have dropped patch "3d" which resets t_nom to t_now when packets start to get late. Note that this still does not resolve the problem that the scheduling of packets is unpredictable and seemingly uncontrollable. The packet scheduling needs more revision, in particular for the case when X gets closer to X_crit = packet_size_in_bytes * HZ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dccp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html