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Clint Morgan commented on HADOOP-2232: -------------------------------------- Yeah, that test was just to illustrate the issue, and not for inclusion. > Add option to disable nagles algorithm in the IPC Server > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-2232 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2232 > Project: Hadoop > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: ipc > Affects Versions: 0.16.0 > Reporter: Clint Morgan > Attachments: HADOOP-2232-1.patch > > > While investigating hbase performance, I found a bottleneck caused by > Nagles algorithm. For some reads I would get a bi-modal distribution > of read times, with about half the times being around 20ms, and half > around 200ms. I tracked this down to the well-known interaction between > Nagle's algorithm and TCP delayed acknowledgments. > I found that calling setTcpNoDelay(true) on the server's socket > connection dropped all of my read times back to a constant 20 ms. > I propose a patch to have this TCP_NODELAY option be configurable. The > attacked patch allows one to set the TCP_NODELAY option on both the > client and the server side. Currently this is defaulted to false > (i.e., with Nagle's enabled). > To see the effect, I have included a Test which provokes the issue by > sending a MapWriteable over an IPC call. On my machine this test shows > a speedup of 117 times when using TCP_NODELAY. > These tests were done on OSX 10.4. Your milage may very with other > TCP/IP implementation stacks. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.