Thank you for your help Andy. I think you are correct, the flowfiles are very 
small and the previous Processor is very fast – this might explain what is 
happening. I’ve enclosed screenshots of the connection properties and the 
workflow. In the screenshot I see 400 flowfiles were allowed through before 
back pressure was applied. The back pressure object threshold is set to 1. Do 
you have any recommendations?

Kevin

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From: Andy LoPresto [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2017 4:16 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Back Pressure Object threshold not honored

Hi Kevin,

Sorry to hear you are having this issue. Can you please provide a screenshot of 
the connection properties in the configuration dialog? How quickly do those 
flowfiles get enqueued? I think there’s a chance if they are very small & the 
previous processor is very fast (i.e. RouteOnAttribute, SplitText) that it 
could enqueue a higher number before the back pressure check is executed.

Andy LoPresto
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On Apr 27, 2017, at 4:07 PM, Kevin Verhoeven 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

I have an odd problem. I set the Back Pressure Object threshold on a link 
between two Processors to 1, but 200 flowfiles are passed to the queue before 
back pressure is honored. I need the back pressure to be set to a small number 
of flowfiles to keep the source from flooding the destination. Has anyone come 
across this problem before? I am running 12 instances of NiFi on version 1.1.1 
on Ubuntu 14.04.

Regards,

Kevin

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