Comment by jandrese
3 years ago
I kind of wonder if these applications are forced to do their own buffering because they have disabled Nagle's algorithm?
The old adage about people who attempt to attempt to avoid TCP end up reinventing TCP and re-learning the lessons from the 70s...
You missed the part about many inefficient system calls. You want buffering to happen before the thing that has a relatively high per-call overhead.