Today I Learned
BBR and larger TCP buffers for WireGuard tunnels
Default CUBIC congestion control undershoots throughput on WireGuard tunnels. Switching to BBR and increasing TCP buffer sizes made a noticeable difference for torrent racing:
boot.kernel.sysctl = {
"net.core.default_qdisc" = "fq";
"net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control" = "bbr";
"net.core.rmem_max" = 16777216;
"net.core.wmem_max" = 16777216;
"net.ipv4.tcp_rmem" = "4096 87380 16777216";
"net.ipv4.tcp_wmem" = "4096 65536 16777216";
};
BBR needs fq as the qdisc to work properly.