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From: Eric Wong <normalperson-rMlxZR9MS24@public.gmane.org>
To: Rainbows! list <rainbows-talk-GrnCvJ7WPxnNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: range requests and multipart responses
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:54:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100720185459.GA2732@dcvr.yhbt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71E4CB4E-365A-4A6B-85EA-9C24415E1234-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>

James Tucker <jftucker-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 20 Jul 2010, at 07:18, Eric Wong wrote:
> > [1] - For the performance-minded, it's also tough to implement multipart
> >      responses efficiently using any sendfile() implementation.
> >      Our TCP_CORK support is far from optimal under Linux right now,
> >      and not using TCP_CORK would be even less efficient with extra
> >      multipart headers.  AFAIK, sendfilev() isn't available outside of
> >      Solaris, either.
> 
> Does cork even help in real world use cases?

Heh, good question :)

I've only seen it help in microbenchmarks and analyzing tcpdump output.
I've never bothered checking in Ruby apps (never though it'd be worth my
time, even), but I don't expect it to be worth the effort.  Maybe
somebody else will care enough...

However, I've seen corking hurt badly for things like chat apps and
anything with bidirectional small messages.  It's impossible for the
server to reliably tell what type of traffic to expect without the app
stepping in to tell it to uncork at certain points.

-- 
Eric Wong
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-20 19:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-20  6:18 range requests and multipart responses Eric Wong
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2010-07-20  9:21   ` James Tucker
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2010-07-20 18:54       ` Eric Wong [this message]
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2010-09-03  3:26 russell muetzelfeldt

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