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From: Mike Haertel <mike@ducky.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] having the Nagle cake and eating it too
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 11:29:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200111261929.fAQJT8f01844@ducky.net> (raw)

The problem with Nagle seems to be that it clobbers performance
of RPC applications.  The communications pattern of such an
application is almost always:

	write(...request...);
	read(...response...);

(for clients) or

	write(...response...)
	read(...request...)

for servers.

Why not have read() force any outstanding writes to the network?
That way you could do the right thing even with programs whose
authors are too naive to know about turning off Nagle.


             reply	other threads:[~2001-11-26 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-26 19:29 Mike Haertel [this message]
2001-11-27 10:18 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-26 19:40 presotto

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