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Subject: Re: Using dummynet to restrict bandwidth with more than 2 active
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Mark Sandford wrote:
> Sorry if anyone's wasted time looking at this. The problem appears
> to be with the traffic generator. Once we get above two generation
> processes we think that the data is being sent in bursts so although
> it appears to be right averaged over a second at a finer granularity
> the burstiness is meaning it's either exceeding the bandwidth or idle
> at each point.
> 

what are you using to generate traffic?
and what kind of traffic?