I'd like to gauge how many people plan to go to this meeting, since it
could be popular enough that I might need to get a bigger room.  If
people plan to attend, could they chime in?

Thanks,
Chuck

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:01:41AM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> The next Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG) meeting will be held at
> its regularly scheduled time: the 2nd Wednesday of the month, which is
> Wednesday, October 9, at 7PM.  The location will be the WPI Campus
> Center, Mid-Centry Room 331.
>
> This month we will have Jim Gettys from Bell Labs talk about Internet
> buffer bloat.  This is the talk that has been rescheduled from April.
>
> "Internet buffer bloat, by Jim Gettys (Bell Labs)
>
> VOIP and teleconferencing often perform much more poorly on today's
> Internet than the Internet of a decade ago, despite great gains in
> bandwidth. Lots of fiber, cheap memory, smart hardware, variability of
> wireless goodput, changes in web browser behaviour, changes in TCP
> implementations, and a focus on benchmarking Internet performance
> solely by bandwidth, and engineer's natural reluctance to drop packets
> have conspired to encourage papering over problems by adding buffers;
> each of which may introduce latency when filled.
>
> The mistaken quest to never drop packets has destroyed interactivity
> under load, and often results in actual higher packet loss, as TCP's
> congestion avoidance algorithms have been defeated by these
> buffers. The lessons of the "RED manifesto" of 1997 have been
> forgotten or never learned by a new generation of engineers."
>
> Wednesday, October 9, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
> WPI Campus Center, Mid-Centry Room 331
>
> Afterwards, we will go out for pizza.
>
> See you there,
> Chuck
> President, Worcester Linux Users' Group
> http://www.wlug.org/

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