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Aug 30, 2008

TCP Profile Optimizaiton - Nagle vs Delayed ACKs

In my never-ending quest to reduce the complaints about performance of our HTTP apps hosted by our LTMs, I've been doing a lot of investigation into how to optimize our TCP profile. I ran across an ar...
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Sep 01, 2008
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After about 12 hours of reading this weekend, I think I finally understand that my problem is being caused b a combination of two factors: much too small window sizes, and the interaction between Nagle and Delayed Acks. The delay problem is there, but it is made much worse by the window sizes. I am already in the processes of increasing the window sizes to 64K, and I will be disabling the Nagle algorithm too. That should clean this up quite a bit.