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- nagling
- An algorithm that causes the TCP/IP service provider to buffer small data packets into larger ones before sending. Nagling prevents a TCP/IP server from transmitting many very small packets by requiring the server either to wait until it has accumulated enough small data packets to combine them into a single large packet, or until it has received an acknowledgment of the prior packet. Nagling can reduce message overhead (and decrease required bandwidth), but also causes a delay before small data packets are sent (increasing latency). You can turn off nagling by setting the DPSESSION_OPTIMIZELATENCY flag in the DPSESSIONDESC2 structure.
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