[PATCH] Added NoDelay config option and nodelay subsystem option

[Nicolas Williams]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 05:14:19PM +0100, Markus Friedl wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 04:39:43PM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote:
> > >     - turn on TCP_NODELAY for interactive sessions (Markus; current state)
> > 
> > Which goes against all logic and theory, right?  :-)
> 
> please provide information _why_ ssh-1.2.12 did it this way.

What I find, on a cursory look in google, is that users were unhappy
with the resulting latency.

> _if_ we know the reason for the current state _then_
> we can think about changing things and then we can
> change things.

I think you're right that we need a per-channel request to disable Nagle.
The question is what to do until that is possible.

Nico
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