[ZODB-Dev] zeo2a1 performance cold spots

Neil Schemenauer nas@mems-exchange.org
Sun, 30 Jun 2002 01:10:31 -0400


On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 08:26:14PM +0100, Toby Dickenson wrote:
> Modifying handle_write to aggregate small blocks (patch below) causes
> TCP to send most requests and responses in one packet.  This is
> definitely a good thing.

If you send data in large blocks then Nagle's algorithm is nothing but
trouble.  It's enabled by default because most programmers are too lazy
to properly buffer the data sent.

  Neil