TCP perfomance

Yes, I also forgot that I had been subscribed to this list.
To get a topic going I was at work and I argued that we should disable 
TCP timestamps. I was discussing in a meeting that this would cut back 
(perhaps very slightly) on the amount of work that the system has to do 
before sending a packet out. In a high traffic system (like a file 
server or a mail server or in my case a Oracle Database), not having to 
throw this on every packet should increase performance ever so slightly. 
Disabling this would benefit security, as the attacker would not be able 
to gather the up time from the targeted system.
Like I said this might be a slight increase, but its an increase 
none-the-less, and when you have a DBA crying about poor network speed 
or IO, or the system is too heavily loaded, then this keeps him quiet 
for a few days. :)
Any thoughts???
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