From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stef Coene Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:43:50 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] esfq (was cbq.init) Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 23 April 2003 21:33, Nickola Kolev wrote: > On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 21:14:34 +0200 > Stef Coene wrote: > > [ cut ] > > : Not stupid, but the wrong place. This is not the cbq.init discussion > : list. Howerver some remarks. I think the esfq idea came from me. You > : can use if you know why. So if you are not satisfied with cbq.init, try > : to create your own script. > : > : You can have the sfq "problem" if you add mutliple users in the same > : class. With the sfq qdisc, each stream (determined by src/dst and > : port/ip-address) has the same opportunity to send something. The esfq > : qdisc can be configured to only use the src address to create the streams > : so the each users has his own little queue. And so they have the same > : chance to send something. > : > : Or you can create 1 class for each user. > : > : Stef > > [ cut ] > > In fact, Stef, > > I tried the esfq qdisc a few days ago, but I can't say > I saw satisfied. Maybe I couldn't find the right values for > limit/depth/divisor, but there were no fair links for the IPs I defined. > For a 128 Kbit class, I added the necessary filter and a esfq qdisc, but > the bandwidth was not shared equally. Two of four clients got 4 KB, and the > rest got about 2,5KB download speed. Thery wew THE ONLY users, connected to > that machine. > > So, I'm wondering if esfq is really working as it is supposed to do. > Maybe Alexander Atanasov could enlighten me (us)? I never tried the esfq qdisc myself. I only noted it was there. I also don't know if anyone else is using it. Stef -- stef.coene@docum.org "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/ #lartc @ irc.oftc.net _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/