Re: TCP/IP Speed

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> 
> When I ping two linux machines on a private link, I get 0.1 ms delay.
> When I send large TCP/IP stream data between them, I get almost
> 10 megabytes per second on a 100-base link. Wonderful.
> 
> However, if I send 64 bytes from one machine and send it back, simple
> TCP/IP strean connection, it takes 1 millisecond to get it back? There
> seems to be some artifical delay somewhere.  How do I turn this OFF?

I would say its all in the TCP connection initiation (socket(), create() 
etc...)

Cheers,
	Zwane Mwaikambo