On Thu 2011-03-03 13:45:24, Tianji Li wrote: > > > On 03/03/2011 12:16 PM, Rick Jones wrote: > >>For wireless routers and cable home gateways especially, this research > >>shows that the total un-managed buffers in your system should be less > >>than 32. > > > >Would it be a good thing to start describing these queues not so much in > >terms of packets but in terms of delay (or bandwidth X delay)? > > > > The unit of bandwidth is something like Mbps, that of delay can be > second, so bandwidth X delay --> Mb, which is the unit of packet > size. So both packets and delay should have the same effect for > sizing buffers. Bandwidth varies greatly with time. On cellphone, you can go from 5KB/sec GPRS to 300KB/sec HSDPA and back... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
