Re: several messages

1999-08-24 Thread Wes Peters
"Mark J. Taylor" wrote: You may want to set the transmit and recieve low-water marks as well. Look at the man page for "setsockopt". Amd tcp(4). -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr

Re: several messages

1999-08-24 Thread Wes Peters
Mark J. Taylor wrote: You may want to set the transmit and recieve low-water marks as well. Look at the man page for setsockopt. Amd tcp(4). -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters Softweyr LLC

Re: several messages

1999-08-23 Thread Wayne Cuddy
Thank you for your reply. At what point should I set this socket option? I am assuming right after the socket is allocated?? I will try this and post my results tomorrow night. For those wondering, I cannot just execute Sendmail directly, there are many architectural reasons for this

Re: several messages

1999-08-23 Thread Mark J. Taylor
As an (former) implementer of fast TCP/IP peer-peer communications, I'd have to agree with Dave, and say that it is definitely the TCP_NODELAY option. You'll find that disabling the TCP-ACK delay will greatly increase your performace. The reason that it is so "slow" is because the TCP/IP stack

Re: several messages

1999-08-23 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Wayne Cuddy scribbled this message on Aug 24: Thank you for your reply. At what point should I set this socket option? I am assuming right after the socket is allocated?? I will try this and post my results tomorrow night. For those wondering, I cannot just execute Sendmail directly,

Re: several messages

1999-08-23 Thread Wayne Cuddy
Thank you for your reply. At what point should I set this socket option? I am assuming right after the socket is allocated?? I will try this and post my results tomorrow night. For those wondering, I cannot just execute Sendmail directly, there are many architectural reasons for this

Re: several messages

1999-08-23 Thread Mark J. Taylor
As an (former) implementer of fast TCP/IP peer-peer communications, I'd have to agree with Dave, and say that it is definitely the TCP_NODELAY option. You'll find that disabling the TCP-ACK delay will greatly increase your performace. The reason that it is so slow is because the TCP/IP stack is

Re: several messages

1999-08-23 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Wayne Cuddy scribbled this message on Aug 24: Thank you for your reply. At what point should I set this socket option? I am assuming right after the socket is allocated?? I will try this and post my results tomorrow night. For those wondering, I cannot just execute Sendmail directly,