> Hi.
>
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 01:56:12AM -0400, Chris Snook (
csnook@redhat.com) wrote:
> > The easiest way to see the problem is to open a TCP socket to an echo
> > daemon on loopback, make a bunch of small writes totaling less than your
> > loopback MTU (accounting for overhead), and see how long it takes to get
> > your echoes. You can probably do this with netcat, though I haven't
> > tried. People don't expect loopback to have 40 ms latency when the box
> > is lightly loaded, so they'd really like to tweak that down when it's
> > hurting them.
>
> Isn't Nagle without corking a very bad idea? Or you can not change the
> application?