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by londons_explore 584 days ago
TCP parameters are a classic example of where an autotuner might bite you in the ass...

Imagine your tuner keeps making the congestion control more aggressive, filling network links up to 99.99% to get more data through...

But then any other users of the network see super high latency and packet loss and fail because the tuner isn't aware of anything it isn't specifically measuring - and it's just been told to make this one application run as fast as possible.

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It literally covers this exact scenario in the readme and explains how it prevents that.