You might want to set TCP_NODELAY on the socket to disable Nagle's algorithm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagles_algorithm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagles_

You might want to set TCP_NODELAY on the socket to disable Nagle's algorithm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagles_algorithm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagles_algorithm). We ran into some issues with memcached where if Nagle's algorithm was not turned of, GETs would often take several milliseconds longer than was necessary.