Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:19:36 -0500 | From | "J.R. Mauro" <> | Subject | Re: Unix sockets via TCP on localhost: is TCP slower? |
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Quite often in discussions, I see people claiming Unix sockets are > faster then TCP sockets on a connection that stays inside localhost.
Unix domain sockets should be faster because they're not subject to windowing, ACKs, flow control, encapsulation, etc. etc.
> Let's say from app A to app B. > Is this indeed the case and if so, how much and why? > My assumption is that the kernel can optimize the 'connection' and let > any performance differences disappear. > > Greetings, > > Olaf > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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