Hi Erwin- Have you considered a purely static network configuration?
-Matt Pavlovich > On May 20, 2021, at 11:12 AM, Dondorp, Erwin <erwin.dond...@cgi.com> wrote: > > Hello! > > We are using ActiveMQ in a star-network of a few hundred remote brokers on > small computers with a more beefy central broker(set). > Functionally, this works fine. > Unfortunately, the network is not always stable (but this is exactly why we > use a messaging solution). > On network problems that affect most-or-all remote brokers, upon > reconnection, a very large amount of advisory messages are sent between the > nodes. > The amount of messages seems to be quadratic with the number of brokers. > And the number of advisory message types is high because we use unique > destinations per remote broker, so the amount is actually cubic. > We see millions of these messages on such occasions. > > Obviously, we are trying to reduce this, and looked at > https://activemq.apache.org/advisory-message and > https://activemq.apache.org/networks-of-brokers. > But no obvious solution was in sight. > > The question: > Most of the advisory messages are useless; they are about destinations that a > broker does not have any consumers or producers for, but still these are > subscribed to. > Is there a way to reduce the subscriptions on advisory topics to only the > interesting ones? > > thx, > Erwin
