Smack Pubsub has high latency in listener response

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Hi, I have a Smack PubSub client program which is functionally running well on android smartphones.

However, there is an issue with the latency in response. I have a smartphone (Android version 5.0.2) which consistently receives the publishing item within seconds. But I have other 2 smartphones (Android 6.0.1) which consistently receive the publishing item from server within 1-2 minutes after the client has sent the publish item to openfire server. I tried to change the compileSdkVersion to 23 to match with Android 6 smartphone, the latency is still as long.

Note that I am using ChatMessageListener to listen and parse for PubSub response, I can see response in StanzaListener is almost instantaneous, but not in ChatMessageListener which takes 1-2 minutes to happen.

I have search around for solution but could not find any. Any help is highly appreciated.

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This behavior typically occurs if you perform a long running or blocking operation in a synchronous stanza listener, which, in turn, will delay the whole processing chain of the connection.

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Thanks for quick reply!

Originally I set connection.addAsyncStanzaListener(listener, filter). Now I tried to comment off this line to disable the StanzaListener. The response in ChatMessageListener is still as slow. Any other possibilities that can cause this behavior?

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That adds an asynchronous stanza listener, which shouldn’t cause any problem.

Yep, I can think of plenty causes.

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I have number of Listeners that are running. I can remove those Listeners 1 by 1 to identify which causes the latency.

Or do you have any other typical ways to solve this issue?

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Hi I have removed the Listeners I have in the program, but it does not improve ChatMessageListener response. Could you list some of the possible causes?

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I have found the answer to the issue. I have unknowingly subscribed the PubSub user to server node multiple times. And every subscription creates a new entry in the XML. This takes up the bandwidth to publish the data stream from server.

So it is important to put in a check before subscription to avoid multiple subscriptions which can slow down the publication.