On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 06:41 -0500, stig wrote: > Large network activity is not observed ... > Buffer bloat? This is a fairly common problem. Symptoms are that a normal response time is reported by ping but there is a significant delay before the ping request is actioned. It is easily demoed by timing a script that issues singleton pings, e.g. "ping -c 1 www.example.com", for 5 or 6 different targets. Normally such a script would run in under a second, but if carrier and/or ISP networks are suffering from buffer bloat it can take 10+ seconds to run. Martin
