Poor boost.ASIO performance

Question

I have a very simple server/client performance test using boost::asio on Windows and it seems to be performing really poorly. I\'m hoping that I\'m just using the library incor

Answer 1

For my purposes, sending really really small messages and wanting virtual real time replies, disabling Nagle's algorithm turned out to be the cause of the poor performance.

Answer 2

You must turn off the Nagle algorithm. Call:

m_socket.set_option(tcp::no_delay(true));

Where appropriate for your code.