[ds6-devel] Re: nagle algorithm

[Chris Leishman]

On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 01:22 AM, Mauro Tortonesi wrote:

>
> chris,
>
> 	i have just received a mail from a friend of mine who suggests to
> disable by default the nagle algorithm in transfer mode. i think this 
> is a
> good suggestion.
>

Trivial to do, though I'm curious why it would be useful.  The nagle 
algorithm is used to coalesce packets together before transmission over 
the network.  It can be annoying for real time protocols, but in most 
cases it can only be a benefit.  File transfer isn't exactly real time, 
and the nagle algorithm should help to fill out all the packets being 
sent...

But on the advocacy side, we should be writing fairly large chunks at a 
time anyway, so there wont be much coalescing to be done.

Really....I don't care too much, but it would be interesting to do some 
tests...

Regards,
Chris