[zeromq-dev] HWM behaviour & blocking

[Pieter Hintjens]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:20 AM, Viet Hoang (Quant Edge)
<viet.hoang at quant-edge.com> wrote:

> My implementation requires worker to ACK for each message it received. The
> sender waits to receive ACK before sending the next message. I want to
> improve the performance by sending a batch of messages, then check ACKs, if
> any ACK is missed, resend missing messages.

If you want to send a batch to a single worker, then a batch is just a
larger message. I.e. you can do this fully at the application level.
If you want to break a batch over multiple workers, then you would
have to modify the MDP protocol.

-Pieter