Benchmark the VM by itself using OS benchmark tools to rule out the host 
itself. You could be running into low-quality Linux VM running on an 
over-subscribed physical host.

-Matt

> On Feb 11, 2026, at 12:31 PM, Rob Kirkbride <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Yes the same in both cases I believe.
> We are in an Aws environment so we've tried both Amazon Linux and Ubuntu
> Linux and applied all available patches.
> We've also tried increasing the iops on the SSD storage, though there's no
> evidence that it's a bottleneck.
> 
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2026, 18:27 Jean-Baptiste Onofré, <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> Are you using the same activemq.xml ? Same JVM configuration ?
>> 
>> We would need more details to investigate.
>> 
>> Regards
>> JB
>> 
>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 6:02 PM KIRKBRIDE Robert via users <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Classified as: {Hitachi Rail - Public}
>>> 
>>> We seem to have hit an issue with Linux Broker vs Windows Broker
>>> performance that we can't understand or resolve.
>>> We are using v6.2.0 of ActiveMQ Classic. We have a service that is
>> pushing
>>> messages to a virtual topic (VirtualTopic.Name), typically around 20-30
>>> bytes and these are being published at a frequency of around 130
>> messages /
>>> second. We then have two services consuming from separate virtual topic
>>> queues (Consumer.service.VirtualTopic.Name). On a Windows broker we are
>>> seeing ActiveMQ easily deal with this, with low CPU and memory usage.
>> With
>>> a Linux broker the messages are being consumed but seemingly not fast
>>> enough as the queues build up over time (probably running about half the
>>> speed required)
>>> The specifications of the Linux and Windows VMs are the same and in both
>>> cases, memory and CPU is low.
>>> The clients are C# .NET services. Nothing else about the environment
>>> changes. Any ideas as how we can resolve this, anything to try? Thanks a
>>> lot in advance.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> {Hitachi Rail - Public}
>>> 
>> 


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