Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:22:33 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: Unix sockets via TCP on localhost: is TCP slower? | From | David Miller <> |
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From: "J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:19:36 -0500
> 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.
And the wakeup rate is higher for TCP, and our process scheduler has been getting gradually slower and slower over time since 2.6.22
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