What is consider a "large" tcp/ip string

[GregFreeman]

Is 114,000 bytes considered a large tcp/ip string and should I break up one single write into multiple smaller writes? Or does it not really matter? I don't know much about what tcp is doing on the low level in the background.

[nathand]

Don't worry about breaking it up; let your operating system's TCP stack handle that for you.  It knows how large a packet should be and can combine multiple small writes into one larger one for the same destination, or split a large amount of data into appropriately-sized packets.

[Ben]

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@nathand wrote:

Don't worry about breaking it up; let your operating system's TCP stack handle that for you.  It knows how large a packet should be and can combine multiple small writes into one larger one for the same destination, or split a large amount of data into appropriately-sized packets.

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Thank you Nathand!

"An answer from you is better than a guess from me."

The added beauty is error recovery if the network paths have to be reconfigured durring the transfer. TCP/IP guarentees they will be delivered intact or an error will be returned.

Ben