Re: [akka-user] maximum-frame-size and Akka performance

2014-07-15 Thread Konrad 'ktoso' Malawski
Yes it will degrade, because you’ll clog the connection between system `A` and `B` while pumping through LargeMessage, and the other waiting SmallMessages won’t get through while the large one is being written. --  Konrad 'ktoso' Malawski hAkker @ typesafe http://akka.io -- >> Rea

Re: [akka-user] maximum-frame-size and Akka performance

2014-07-15 Thread Asterios Katsifodimos
Hi Konrad, thanks for the suggestions! I will soon impement a blob service (yes, we have HDFS in our environment - that's a good choice). But my question remains unanswered: does the maximum-frame-size, if set ridiculously high, play any role in the performance of small (couple of kilobytes), "

Re: [akka-user] maximum-frame-size and Akka performance

2014-07-15 Thread Konrad 'ktoso' Malawski
Hello Asterios, It’s not a very good idea to use actor messaging to send such huge messages using akka’s remote messaging. Reason being - you’ll delay other messages until the huge one has been pumped through the network. Actor messages should ideally be in kilobyte ranges. 1) In your case I wo

[akka-user] maximum-frame-size and Akka performance

2014-07-15 Thread Asterios Katsifodimos
Hello, I was wondering whether there is any performance implication in case one sets the maximum frame size to a ridiculously large size. In my case, I may have some large files exchange. So, if I set e.g. max-frame-size to 200MiB instead of the rather-low default one, should I expect any per