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Date:      Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:03:36 PST
From:      Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To:        Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com>
Cc:        fenner@parc.xerox.com, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MLEN < write length < MINCLSIZE "bug" 
Message-ID:  <98Dec15.100338pst.177534@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Dec 98 17:39:17 PST." <199812160139.BAA02158@netrinsics.com> 

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In message <199812160139.BAA02158@netrinsics.com> you write:
>After exhaustive testing with the standard X benchmarking utility (xmame),
>I've discovered a significant performance improvement for graphics-
>intensive X applications.

I'm not surprised -- since the "atomic" patch confused X, it was clear
that X was in this range of small writes.  I think that X sets
TCP_NODELAY so it shouldn't be subject to the extra round trip in this
case, but it still ends up being less packets.

  Bill

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