
Effect of Burst-Size Limit
Bursty traffic requires a relatively large burst size so that extra tokens can be allocated
into the token bucket for upcoming traffic to use.
Bursty Traffic Policed Without a Burst-Size Limit
shows an extreme case of bursty traffic where the opportunity to
allocate tokens is missed, and the bandwidth goes unused because a large burst size is
not configured.
Figure 7: Bursty Traffic Without Configured Burst Size (Excessive Unused
Bandwidth)
Bandwidth Limit
Unused Bandwidth
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Traffic
Volume
Time
Burst-Size Limit Configured to Match Bandwidth Limit and Flow Burstiness
depicts how bandwidth usage changes when a large burst size is
configured to handle bursty traffic. The large burst size minimizes the amount of unused
bandwidth because tokens are being allocated in between the bursts of traffic that can
be used during traffic peaks. The burst size determines the depth of the token bucket.
Figure 8: Bursty Traffic with Configured Burst Size (Less Unused
Bandwidth)
Bandwidth Limit
Burst Size
Burst Size
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Unused Bandwidth
Traffic
Volume
Time
Burst-Size Limit That Depletes All Accumulated Tokens
Configuring a large burst size for the unused tokens creates another issue. If the burst
size is set to a very large value, the burst of traffic can be transmitted from the interface
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