alt Hacker NewsThere is also a good write-up [0] by Julia Evans. We ran into this with DICOM storescp, which is a chatty protocol and TCP_NODELAY=1 makes the throughput significantly better. Since DICOM is often used in a LAN, that default just makes it unnecessarily worse.
[0]: https://jvns.ca/blog/2015/11/21/why-you-should-understand-a-...
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eieio • today at 1:13 AM
Oh! Thank you for this! I love Julia’s writing but haven’t read this post.
TZubiri • today at 10:18 AM
I wonder how this fix could be implemented without source code access. Suppose an old ct scanner is clogging up the network.
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Oh, DICOM really like to talk back and forth... I guess that nowadays it should be better with all the WEB/REST versions of the protocol.