Received: by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) id BAA14957; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 01:45:47 -0700 Received: from dicsmss1.jrc.it by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id BAA14940; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 01:45:34 -0700 Received: from jrc.it (elect6.jrc.it) by dicsmss1.jrc.it (4.1/EB-950131-C) id AA08710; Thu, 11 Jul 96 10:49:34 +0200 Received: by jrc.it (5.x/EB-950213-L) id AA01777; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 10:44:46 +0200 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 10:44:46 +0200 From: "Dirk.vanGulik" Message-Id: <9607110844.AA01777@ jrc.it> To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com Subject: Re: performance ``bugs'' in apache-1.1b4's P-HTTP X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-new-httpd@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com > > Wow... this looks useful. We'll certainly look into this. > > One thing which it would be helpful to know is how much the second > tweak to the server (disabling the Nagle algorithm) helps on its own > (and whether it does anything at all, perhaps by allowing the window > to open up a bit wider, to cure the effects of problem one, the MIME > header partial packet --- probably not, I know, but perhaps it's worth > asking). > Check out Volume 3 of TCP/IP Illustrated by R. Stevens et al. It has a nice discussion (all three volumes are a must anyway ;-) Dw.