For HFSC, I think this is a good read. I'll also try to implement it to test the throughput on my current set up. http://linux-ip.net/articles/hfsc.en/ Horace Ng - Internet Solutions Limited E-mail: horace@xxxxxxxxx Tel: +852 27109880 Fax: +852 27704631 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wolfgang Hennerbichler" <wogri@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Mike Schmidt" <mike.schmidt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: lartc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 4:33:24 AM Subject: Re: Not hitting rated speed on HTB downstream -- http://www.wogri.at On Aug 13, 2013, at 22:25 , Mike Schmidt <mike.schmidt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Wolfgang Hennerbichler <wogri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Aug 13, 2013, at 17:57 , Remy Mudingay <remy.mudingay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Firstly I'd change classid's rate so that the sum rate of all 1:1 child classes are not greater than its rate value. This is applicable to your default class 1:4. >> >> This is a question I had on my mind for a long time: what if I want to oversubscribe (a lot of) clients? Will this cause any troubles? Why do you recommend doing this? >> >> Wolfgang-- > > Generally, if you oversubscribe the children (i.e. sum(rates of > children) > rate of parent class) in htb, you basically kill the > bandwidth management of the parent, since it can no longer manage the > children's throughput. I personally set all the children to a low > value for rate, but give them a high ceiling, this way the parent has > a lot of flexibility. Don't forget that the 'rate' in htb is > essentially a guaranteed throughput. However, I find HFSC more > flexible, although somewhat harder to understand. finding proper HFSC doc is a problem for me… thanks for clarifying. > -- > Mike SCHMIDT > CTO > Intello Technologies Inc. > mike.schmidt@xxxxxxxxxxx > Canada: 1-888-404-6261 x320 > USA: 1-888-404-6268 x320 > Mobile: 514-409-6898 > www.intello.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lartc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lartc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html