[zeromq-dev] PUB-SUB scalability

[Martin Sustrik]

Pieter Hintjens wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Steven Clark <steven.p.clark at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Don't create multiple PUB sockets because it's unnecessarily complex, or
>> because it wouldn't help the network data rate at all?
> 
> Both: more complex than you need, and doesn't help.

Well, if you had separate socket per topic it could help. Just don't 
connect to those endpoints you are not interested in. It's a pretty 
awkward solution though.

The only real solution is to implement forwarding subscriptions upstream.

Martin