Hello,
I have a question in relation to updating the value of “xmpp.parser.buffer.size”. I understand that the default size is set to 1MB, and that it can be changed up to a max size of 2GB. My project is utilizing Openfire 3.7.1 as a Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) for the request/response of data between remote applications. However, depending on the query, there could be much more than 1MB of data in the XML response. We’ve seen anywhere from 25-50MB in early tests. Of course, these large responses don’t happen very frequently (maybe once every 10-20 hours). And we also use Openfire for a lot of very small messages (possibly up to a rate of at 1 message per second).
Therefore, I was hoping that we could possibly just increase the value of the “xmpp.parser.buffer.size” to say 50MB, or maybe 100MB. However, I didn’t know what implications there could be to the memory of the system running Openfire if the size was set to 50MB or 100MB.
Does Openfire automatically allocate the value of “xmpp.parser.buffer.size” in memory for every message? Foir instance, if we have an XML response that might only be 10KB, will 50MB of memory be allocated and used by the system all at once, even though the message is only 10KB? Or is there maybe some sort of dynamic allocation, and that only the size of the message will be allocated in memory, and the 100MB of memory will only be utilized if the message size is that large?
I just want to make sure that if the “xmpp.parser.buffer.size” is set at a high, that we don’t run into a scenario where the system runs out of memory if we start receiving a high volume of small messages.
I realize there are ways to get around this in code (like paging the response and sending a series of messages, as opposed to one large message). However, we are first trying to see if this can be accomplished without any code update (and the coordination needed due to dealing with remote sites).
Thank you very much for your assistance!