Disabling nagle algorithm

Anupam Kapoor anupam.kapoor at gmail.com
Mon May 30 22:41:28 EDT 2011


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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