Disabling nagle algorithm

[Anupam Kapoor]

yet another option would be to setup point-to-point ethernet device
(^^) via tun/tap drivers. you can have a userland program receiving
data from the said device, and then use whatever options you want
there.

anupam

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Anupam Kapoor <anupam.kapoor at gmail.com> wrote:
> yup, that's what i also think. is it possible that nagle+delayed-ack
> is causing the perceived slow-down ?
>
> anupam
>
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper at gmail.com> wrote:
>> frankly it is not wise to disable nagle, and the solution i proposed
>> (using netfilter extension) is really too tedious - the added overhead
>> may slow down the processing, even though disabling nagle aims to
>> improve latencies.   but modern network card is so fast, that the
>> bottleneck is not at the network card side, but more likely in the
>> network gateway, or router side - so u are definitely not going to see
>> improvement in spite of all the troubles.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Peter Teoh
>>
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