I'll be there. Bob On 10/2/2013 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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