From: Job Snijders <job@sobornost.net>
Subject: Re: Add sysctl to disable Nagle's algorithm (RFC 896 - Congestion Control)
To: Alexander Bluhm <bluhm@openbsd.org>, Job Snijders <job@openbsd.org>, Otto Moerbeek <otto@drijf.net>,  tech@openbsd.org
Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 00:29:31 +0200

On Wed, 15 May 2024 at 00:28, Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> wrote:

> Theo de Raadt wrote in
>  <19825.1715720446@cvs.openbsd.org>:
>  |Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
>  |
>  |> On 2024/05/14 21:29, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
>  |>> My worry is that disabling Nagla always will affect apps that are not
>  |>> interactive but write quite a lot of data in relatively small chunks
>  |>> into the socket, expecting the kernel to do the buffering and create
>  |>> large packets.
>  |>
>  |> Linux has a specific TCP_CORK for those cases too..
>  |
>  |Awesome.  More #ifdef code.  No thanks...
>
> i thought that is a Linux alias for tcp_nopush.



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