On 8/28/07, Gerrit Renker <gerrit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> | > (I am using different FIFO length since I know from experience that otherwise the bridge
> | > can also incur loss.)
> | >
> | Can you post scripts for altering the fifo length? Is that equivalent
> | to the following for rate-limited? (from test page)
> | /sbin/tc qdisc add dev lan0 root handle 1:0 netem delay $1ms
> | /sbin/tc qdisc add dev lan1 root handle 1:0 netem delay $1ms
> | /sbin/tc qdisc add dev lan0 parent 1:1 handle 10: tbf rate $2kbit
> | buffer 10000 limit 30000
>
> It is comparable but not equivalent, since in the above you are using a TBF which will change the nature
> of the traffic. I use the following (with qlen=10000):
>
> tc qdisc add dev eth0 root handle 1:0 netem delay ${delay}ms
> tc qdisc add dev eth0 parent 1:1 pfifo limit ${qlen}
>
OK - I must confess to not studying the difference in queue
disciplines greatly, but I did find quickly the default queue lengths
were no use really.
> (The same configuration is used on both interfaces.) I found that merely adding the tx qlen of the NIC
> (via `ip link set ...') does not do much, and that especially if either the delay is slightly longer
> or the difference in traffic is drastic (e.g. 100Mbps link with a TBF rate of 1 Mbps), a longer FIFO
> length is needed to avoid packets being dropped at the traffic shaper.
> Plus, one gets all the nice statistics about queue drops and requeued etc.
>
OK
>
> | > I note that on http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/DCCP_Testing#Network_emulation_setup
> | > different loss values for forward/return are used. Has anyone further experience with this?
> | > I wonder if feedback loss has heavier implications than forward loss?
> | >
> |
> | The reason for me putting zero % loss on return path is that we are
> | testing unidirectional flows. As such I wanted all feedback to come
> | back and if we lost feedback packets it would increase variability. We
> | should test loss of feedback packets for protocol reasons but not so
> | much for performance testing.
> Ah - I see, so this means that for performance testing I'd have to use:?
>
> tc qdisc add dev eth0 root netem delay 75ms loss 10% # the forward path
> tc qdisc add dev eth1 root netem delay 75ms # reverse path (no feedback loss)
>
Yes - I just happened to have a line with loss 0% from my python code
which is functionally equivalent to above.
> Maybe we should add a line on the OSDL page, it is something that had slightly confused me.
>
Agree
>
> | Your webserver seems to be down.... No pages on
> | http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/ work at present.
> Occasional, short downtime is possible, but usually the webserver runs all the time. It is ok again.
>
Fine now.
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