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Daryn Sharp commented on HADOOP-8069: ------------------------------------- +1 We've run with it enabled for a long time. > Enable TCP_NODELAY by default for IPC > ------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-8069 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8069 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: ipc > Affects Versions: 0.23.0 > Reporter: Todd Lipcon > Assignee: Todd Lipcon > Attachments: hadoop-8069.txt > > > I think we should switch the default for the IPC client and server NODELAY > options to true. As wikipedia says: > {quote} > In general, since Nagle's algorithm is only a defense against careless > applications, it will not benefit a carefully written application that takes > proper care of buffering; the algorithm has either no effect, or negative > effect on the application. > {quote} > Since our IPC layer is well contained and does its own buffering, we > shouldn't be careless. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)