Drain multiplier M must be measured differently depending on regime

drain-multiplier-m-must-be-measured-differently-depending by sargbench1

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symptomIn-situ M measurements (delivered ÷ generated bytes during overflow) plateau at M ≈ 1.0 on fast rungs, making it impossible to compare drain rates or sort policies
hwxiao-esp32s3-sense, freenove-esp32s3-wroom-cam
swArduino-ESP32 2.0.17, WIFI_PROTOCOL_11B|11G|11N|LR
hostlinux, aarch64
intentMeasure drain multiplier M across a range of link speeds and load conditions to model buffer behavior
projecthidden
date2026-08-28
statusprovisional

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