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Chasing that 32 ms tail latency in ClickHouse
A customer saw an extra ~32 ms on simple SELECT queries after idle periods. We traced it to unbatched Native protocol metadata packets overflowing a reset TCP congestion window, reproduced it with network namespaces, and fixed it by batching them.
Kavi Kanagaraj
Oct 13, 2026 · 14 minutes read
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