Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project
On Sun, 9 Sep 2001 13:36, Guus Sliepen wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 01:31:14PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
> > > Actually, one good solution is turning on the Nagle algorithm, or
> > > rather not using TCP_NODELAY (I don't know if ssh sets it, but I guess
> > > it does to improve responsiveness). What you propose will break
> > > situations where you have to type one non-interesting key to invoke an
> > > action, people wait for
> >
> > No, the server just registers that key as a key that will push all the
> > data. It would be more efficient than anything that the Nagle algorithm
> > could produce AND give the best responsiveness.
>
> Well, Nagle is very good for fast typers :).
>
> > BTW All correctly written terminal programs will push all data out and
> > defeat the Nagle algorithm anyway.
>
> I don't know whether that really is correct behaviour. Depends on your
> point of view I think.
Doesn't Nagle typically involve delays of >100ms? >100ms extra delay for a
serial link in unacceptable for interactive use, so every key press must be
pushed.
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