Question / Help Disabling so called "TCP no delay" - is it useful for streaming?

[Mroczny_Gustaw]

Disabling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagle's_algorithm in TCP protocol can reduce lag in online games - yes it works. Can it make positive difference in streaming also? Afaik RTMP works on TCP so it will affect streaming, but how?

http://lifeandcode.net/2009/05/reduce-game-network-latency-in-windows-7-or-vista/
Simple to use tool that does this with 1 click is Leatrix Latency Fix - http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info13581-LeatrixLatencyFix.html

 

[R1CH]

You seem to be mixing up deferred acks and TCP_NODELAY. Disabling deferred acks (Leatrix tool) is useful in low bandwidth multiplayer games so the server can send its next packet sooner if the client has no response. TCP_NODELAY disables Nagle's algorithm and should not (and often cannot) be changed by a user since it's heavily application dependent.

Neither have any benefit in RTMP since the bandwidth is high enough not to result in deferred acks, and the protocol is not designed to operate without Nagle's algorithm to coalesce sends.

 

[Mroczny_Gustaw]

Oh, thank you for explanation