Comment by manv1
3 years ago
Nagle's algorithm is designed to stop packlets.
If you're not sending a lot of packlets you shouldn't be using Nagle's algorithm. It's on by default in systems because without it interactive shells get weird, and there are few things more annoying to sysadmins than weird terminal behavior, especially when shit is hitting the fan.
But it seems that it shouldn't be limiting packets to 50 bytes (which is apparently the size of buffers used by the application in send/write). Once the send buffer is full the Kernel should be sending full packets.
What's a packlet?