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@xxxxxxxxx> 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 > -- In the beginning was the lambda, and the lambda was with Emacs, and Emacs was the lambda. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies