On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Scott Howard wrote:
> > Is anyone able to confirm, or otherwise, whether the ability to enable or
> > disable the Nagle algorithm is still in the 2.2.x kernels.
>
> Out of interest, why do you want to disable nagle?
>
> In almost all cases turning off Nagle on a host basis (as opposed to a
> connection basis for some connections) is a bad thing.
>
> For a telnet session, the only thing gained by turning it off is that if
> you're over a high latency link the connection will be less jerky (but with
> a very significant increase in bandwidth usage - up to about 10x as much
> data can be transmitted with Nagle disabled!).
Perhaps someone who knows exactly what "Nagle" is and does, could perhaps
explain a little more in depth what it is and what it does, and why to the
list, so that we could all know more about it.
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