On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Stefan de Konink <[email protected]> wrote:
> Imagine a usecase having a persistent datastream form a pubsub but the > subscriber can't be bothered to receive messages in quiet times, just > because the data is not needed and is updated at such regular intervals > that processing messages at a given time is fast enough, while doing a > req/reply does give too much overhead at peak times. > > Is using a subscriber with a very low highwatermark a smart design here, > or will it put a lot of presure on the publisher? That should be ok - could the subscriber not just unsubscribe from the topics it doesn't care about when it doesn't need the data though - that would mean the pub could drop the messages (for unicast transports). Ian
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