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2005 Dec 28
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Use of TCP_CORK instead of TCP_NODELAY
...nsuited for streams. NODELAY was (imho) ment for
connections for which Nagle isn't sufficient and CORK is not an option, i.e.
telnet.
Sending the data as soon as you can might not be the way to go, since this
has the potential to raise overhead significantly. I can explain this best
by grossly exxagerating, suppose i have an application that sends out 1 byte
at a time. Using NODELAY this would result in a dramatic increase of
overhead, since you would then basically use a 20 byte TCP header to send 1
byte, ie an overhead of 95%. If you reach a point where you think data
should be sent immediatly, you...