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From: "Olaf van der Spek" <olafvdspek@gmail.com>
To: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Unix sockets via TCP on localhost: is TCP slower?
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:20:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b2cc26e40811121520k711fa702u85e53bbc18b021a0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

Quite often in discussions, I see people claiming Unix sockets are
faster then TCP sockets on a connection that stays inside localhost.
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

             reply	other threads:[~2008-11-12 23:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-12 23:20 Olaf van der Spek [this message]
2008-11-13 11:24 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2008-11-13 19:06   ` Olaf van der Spek
2008-11-13 23:04     ` Chris Friesen
2008-11-14  0:19 ` J.R. Mauro
2008-11-14  0:22   ` David Miller
2008-11-14  0:27     ` J.R. Mauro
2008-11-14  8:51   ` Olaf van der Spek
2008-11-14  8:54     ` Eric Dumazet
2008-11-14  9:06       ` Olaf van der Spek
2008-11-14 13:14         ` J.R. Mauro
2008-11-14  8:56     ` David Miller
2008-11-14  9:09       ` Olaf van der Spek
2008-11-14 10:37         ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-11-14 13:17         ` J.R. Mauro
2008-11-14 21:07         ` Willy Tarreau
2008-11-14 22:40           ` Olaf van der Spek

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