What exactly does the Nagle algorithm do?
What exactly does the Nagle algorithm do?
It groups together as much data as it can between ACK's from the other
end of the connection. I found this really confusing until Andrew
Gierth (andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk) drew the following diagram, and
explained:
This diagram is not intended to be complete, just to illustrate the
point better...
Case 1: client writes 1 byte per write() call. The program on host B
is tcpserver.c from the FAQ examples.
CLIENT SERVER
APP TCP TCP APP
[connection setup omitted]