[anyfoo]

Oh yeah, I didn’t mean to imply that the pops are a necessary consequence of buffer overruns. But as you say, gracefully mitigating the symptom requires non-negligible engineering effort (and potentially resources), when the actual problem, namely buffer overruns occurring because the consumer is too slow, shouldn’t exist in this particular system in the first place.

[theamk]

The delays was on their servers, not on endpoints. So from the consumers' view, this was a buffer underrun due bad communication link.

(In reality, the communication link was fine and it was packet-forwarding server that was slow; but I bet the consumers just saw the packet delays)