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Willy Tarreau 67bf1d6c9e MINOR: quic: support a tolerance for spurious losses
Tests performed between a 1 Gbps connected server and a 100 mbps client,
distant by 95ms showed that:

  - we need 1.1 MB in flight to fill the link
  - rare but inevitable losses are sufficient to make cubic's window
    collapse fast and long to recover
  - a 100 MB object takes 69s to download
  - tolerance for 1 loss between two ACKs suffices to shrink the download
    time to 20-22s
  - 2 losses go to 17-20s
  - 4 losses reach 14-17s

At 100 concurrent connections that fill the server's link:
  - 0 loss tolerance shows 2-3% losses
  - 1 loss tolerance shows 3-5% losses
  - 2 loss tolerance shows 10-13% losses
  - 4 loss tolerance shows 23-29% losses

As such while there can be a significant gain sometimes in setting this
tolerance above zero, it can also significantly waste bandwidth by sending
far more than can be received. While it's probably not a solution to real
world problems, it repeatedly proved to be a very effective troubleshooting
tool helping to figure different root causes of low transfer speeds. In
spirit it is comparable to the no-cc congestion algorithm, i.e. it must
not be used except for experimentation.
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.github CI: QUIC Interop AWS-LC: enable chrome client 2024-08-20 05:13:46 +02:00
addons MINOR: startup: rename readcfgfile in parse_cfg 2024-08-07 18:41:41 +02:00
admin MINOR: release-estimator: fix the shebang of the python script 2024-08-13 17:26:36 +02:00
dev DEV: coccinelle: add a test to detect unchecked strdup() 2024-08-06 08:21:49 +02:00
doc MINOR: quic: support a tolerance for spurious losses 2024-08-21 08:34:30 +02:00
examples CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2023-11-23 16:23:14 +01:00
include MINOR: quic: support a tolerance for spurious losses 2024-08-21 08:34:30 +02:00
reg-tests MINOR: log: "drop" support for log-profile steps 2024-08-19 18:53:01 +02:00
scripts SCRIPTS: create-release: no more need to skip architecture.txt 2024-07-10 15:38:45 +02:00
src MINOR: quic: support a tolerance for spurious losses 2024-08-21 08:34:30 +02:00
tests MAJOR: import: update mt_list to support exponential back-off (try #2) 2024-07-09 16:46:38 +02:00
.cirrus.yml CI: FreeBSD: upgrade image, packages 2024-06-04 11:19:00 +02:00
.gitattributes MINOR: Configure the cpp userdiff driver for *.[ch] in .gitattributes 2021-02-22 18:17:57 +01:00
.gitignore CONTRIB: Add vi file extensions to .gitignore 2023-06-02 18:14:34 +02:00
.mailmap DOC: update Tim's address in .mailmap 2021-09-16 09:14:14 +02:00
.travis.yml CI: travis-ci: temporarily disable arm64 builds 2021-08-07 07:28:15 +02:00
BRANCHES DOC: fix some spelling issues over multiple files 2021-01-08 14:53:47 +01:00
BSDmakefile BUILD: makefile: commit the tiny FreeBSD makefile stub 2023-05-24 17:17:36 +02:00
CHANGELOG [RELEASE] Released version 3.1-dev5 2024-08-07 18:42:33 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2021-08-16 12:37:59 +02:00
INSTALL DOC: install: don't reference removed CPU arg 2024-07-16 20:06:06 +02:00
LICENSE LICENSE: add licence exception for OpenSSL 2012-09-07 13:52:26 +02:00
MAINTAINERS MAJOR: spoe: Let the SPOE back into the game 2024-05-22 09:04:38 +02:00
Makefile MEDIUM: quic: implement quic-initial rules 2024-07-25 15:39:39 +02:00
README.md DOC: change the link to the FreeBSD CI in README.md 2024-06-03 15:21:29 +02:00
SUBVERS BUILD: use format tags in VERDATE and SUBVERS files 2013-12-10 11:22:49 +01:00
VERDATE [RELEASE] Released version 3.1-dev5 2024-08-07 18:42:33 +02:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 3.1-dev5 2024-08-07 18:42:33 +02:00

HAProxy

alpine/musl AWS-LC openssl no-deprecated Illumos NetBSD FreeBSD VTest

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HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

Installation

The INSTALL file describes how to build HAProxy. A list of packages is also available on the wiki.

Getting help

The discourse and the mailing-list are available for questions or configuration assistance. You can also use the slack or IRC channel. Please don't use the issue tracker for these.

The issue tracker is only for bug reports or feature requests.

Documentation

The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. It is available in text format as well as HTML. The wiki is also meant to replace the old architecture guide.

Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for:

  • INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy
  • BRANCHES to understand the project's life cycle and what version to use
  • LICENSE for the project's license
  • CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions

The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory:

License

HAProxy is licensed under GPL 2 or any later version, the headers under LGPL 2.1. See the LICENSE file for a more detailed explanation.