It looks like this is a TCP_NODELAY issue. You tend to get the
problem
if a socket is used "interactively", which means, being used for
reading
and writing in arbitrary order.
Unfortunately the Nagle algorithm on Windows is somewhat sluggish.
I've
tried your echo_server with and without Nagle disabled. Sending a 17
Megs file from my Cygwin box to an echo_server on my Linux box takes
between 4 and 5 seconds.
Sending a 17 Megs file from Linux to an echo_server on Cygwin takes
about 55 seconds. However, when I disable the Nagle algorithm in the
echo_server, it takes between 2 and 9 seconds. I don't understand the
unexact interval, but I also don't see how that could be Cygwin's
fault.
--- echo_server.c.ORIG 2006-03-15 22:37:41.905621200 +0100
+++ echo_server.c 2006-03-15 22:45:56.597789300 +0100
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ int main(void) {
fcntl(client_fd, F_SETFL, fcntl(client_fd, F_GETFL) | O_NONBLOCK);
+ int opt = 1;
+ if (setsockopt(client_fd, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, &opt, sizeof
opt) == -1)
+ fprintf(stderr,"setsockopt TCP_NODELAY: %.100s", strerror
(errno));
+
while(1) {
FD_ZERO(&read_fds);
FD_ZERO(&write_fds);
Corinna
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