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copied!<p>I'm writing two applications (in C), which make several calls to send and receive (e.g. I'm implementing a remote file copy).</p> <p>I always send a 64 Byte Header which contains the length of the following message body and some other information. </p> <p>When testing my application on some files I recognized that some recv calls take a pretty long time to complete (about 40 <strong>ms</strong>). Using strace I found out that it happens first when sending a message body of 377 Bytes (which in this case it the whole content of my file to copy). </p> <p>The server application starts sending the message body which takes about 48 <strong>us</strong>. Now the client application consumes about 38 <strong>ms</strong> to receive these bytes. </p> <p>From that time on every receive calls consumes that much time, since they are each blocking in a receive and waiting for the reply.</p> <p><strong>server's strace</strong></p> <p>[pid 27158] 1292236124.465827 send(6, "\0\0\1\271\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0core.fwrite\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 64, 0) = 64 <0.000031></p> <p>[pid 27158] 1292236124.466074 send(6, "\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\10\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0"..., 377, 0) = 377 <0.000048></p> <p><strong>client's strace</strong></p> <p>[pid 27159] 1292236124.466364 recv(4, "\0\0\1\271\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0core.fwrite\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 64, 0) = 64 <0.000027></p> <p>[pid 27159] 1292236124.466597 recv(4, "\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\10\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0"..., 377, 0) = 377 <0.037456></p> <p>This problem really gives me a hard time since I do not understand why the receive call on the client takes so much time.</p> <p>Any hints would be highly appreciated.</p>

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