Re: Send one message vs send many messages performance

I would send a single message, reason being that most of the time 
multiple messages can be serialized into a byte[] buffer (and placed 
into an org.jgroups.Message) more efficiently, than having to marshall 
each message separately

Tim Fox wrote:
> In JBM sometimes we need to cast a batch of messages across the group,
> e.g. on transaction commit when multiple messages have been sent in a
> transaction.
>
> I can either do this by casting a different jgroups message for each jms
> message, or by casting a single jgroups message containing a list of the
> jms messages.
>
> Can you think of any pros/cons of either approach. I'm thinking in terms
> of performance, overhead of a single jgroups message, message
> frag/defrag overhead etc?

-- 
Bela Ban
Lead JGroups / Manager JBoss Clustering Group
JBoss - a division of Red Hat

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