RHEL 5: TCP performance for localhost is worse than remote hosts

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

When using an application that do TCP networking, specially with data flowing the two ways, the performance is worse then when having one peer at a remote host.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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