Re: [aqm] Gathering Queue Length Statistics

Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> Thu, 26 February 2015 10:30 UTC

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From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
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Subject: Re: [aqm] Gathering Queue Length Statistics
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2015, Dave Taht wrote:

> Oh, god. I am getting incredibly sensitive about average queue length, 
> and I realize that that is not what you meant. But since not enough 
> people have seemingly read this or any of the related materials, here it 
> is again.

But it would be valuable to see "instant current length" and other types 
of statistics if they were collected once per second and the per-second 
values were kept for 30 values back in time (ie 30 seconds worth of data)?

I know some commercial routers will have the possibility of showing the 
current percentage queue fill on the device. I don't know how the Linux 
AQM system works, but exposing some of these counters through the proc 
subsystem (or something else), might work, and then a userspace daemon 
could poll this data as often as it wanted, then you don't even need the 
kernel to do averaging and keeping the data.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se