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A google search to better understand blufferbloat turned up exactly 0 entries.
by kingkawn 16y ago
A google search to better understand blufferbloat turned up exactly 0 entries.
- Groxx 16y ago>... blufferbloat ... Did you try removing the "l" from "buffer"?
- JoachimSchipper 16y agoCome on, that kind of snark isn't helpful. And no, removing the l does not seem to result in significantly more useful Google results.
- Groxx 16y agoI was serious; "bufferbloat" finds 27,000 results, a far cry from zero. I figured it was a spelling error. Only upon seeing this comment did I check the results, which unfortunately do seem to (nearly) all point back to these articles. I'm unsure if the remaining ones (a fair amount can be found by adding "-gettys") refer to the same thing or not, but there are a few other mentions, especially if you add a space.
- rayval 16y agoI think it is because Jim Gettys coined the term very recently. It seems likely that he is the very first person to discover this phenomenon. Although there is a small chance that someone else also discovered it independently but came up with their own phrase to describe it -- a word that does not show up when you search for "bufferbloat". The word "bufferbloat" is OK but it is not quite on target, imho. I don't have a better suggestion, but I think a better alternative is out there somewhere. Such a word would convey, not just the notion of bloatage, but also the notion of bits getting stuck in the comfortable expanse of modern, obese, buffers, fed at a rapid rate by modern hardware (and TCP stacks) on clean pipes. Grasping at metaphors, I'm thinking of dampeners like bit potholes, quicksand, flypaper, speed bumps, bit tarpits...
- Groxx 16y ago"bit tarpit" has a nice ring to it. Or maybe "bithole". Though I'm now inescapably, desperately trying to come up with something legitimate that includes "tubes"... edit: Tube Torpor!