I plan to come
I'm considering going, but I'll have to see how it works out with my schedule that Wednesday.
-- Arjan
On Oct 2, 2013, at 6:07 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> 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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