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ERLomboy_27803
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Mar 03, 2015

Nagle's Algorithm, enable or disable???

Hi Guys,   Had a query about Nagle's algorithm on why this feature is enabled by default on version 10 but on the latest version 11, it is already disabled by default.   Our LBs are currently ...
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jgranieri
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Mar 04, 2015

My recommendation is that for low latency connections turn off nagle. for high bandwidth large transfer type connections enable Nagle.

 

Nagling of packets will slow down communication as the sender will try to send full size packets, even when it has smaller packets to send they will be delayed.

 

With Nagling off the sender will send packets any size, while better for latency sensitive applications not the best method for high bandwidth data transfer type connections.