From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To: Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Unix sockets via TCP on localhost: is TCP slower?
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:24:09 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081113112409.GK13263@ghostprotocols.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2cc26e40811121520k711fa702u85e53bbc18b021a0@mail.gmail.com>
Em Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:20:44AM +0100, Olaf van der Spek escreveu:
> Hi,
>
> Quite often in discussions, I see people claiming Unix sockets are
> faster then TCP sockets on a connection that stays inside localhost.
> Let's say from app A to app B.
> Is this indeed the case and if so, how much and why?
> My assumption is that the kernel can optimize the 'connection' and let
> any performance differences disappear.
How much? Please measure. Faster? Not necessarily, Nagle comes to mind,
among others. What kind of traffic? That matters too.
Start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagle's_algorithm
- Arnaldo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-13 11:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-12 23:20 Unix sockets via TCP on localhost: is TCP slower? Olaf van der Spek
2008-11-13 11:24 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2008-11-13 19:06 ` Olaf van der Spek
2008-11-13 23:04 ` Chris Friesen
2008-11-14 0:19 ` J.R. Mauro
2008-11-14 0:22 ` David Miller
2008-11-14 0:27 ` J.R. Mauro
2008-11-14 8:51 ` Olaf van der Spek
2008-11-14 8:54 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-11-14 9:06 ` Olaf van der Spek
2008-11-14 13:14 ` J.R. Mauro
2008-11-14 8:56 ` David Miller
2008-11-14 9:09 ` Olaf van der Spek
2008-11-14 10:37 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-11-14 13:17 ` J.R. Mauro
2008-11-14 21:07 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-11-14 22:40 ` Olaf van der Spek
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