I have an application that receives relatively sparse traffic over TCP with no application-level responses. I believe the TCP stack is sending delayed ACKs (based on glanci
I believe using the setsockopt() function you can use the TCP_NODELAY which will disable the Nagle algorithm.
TCP_NODELAY
Edit Found a link: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-hisock.html
Edit 2 Tom is correct. Nagle does not affect Delayed ACKs.