HA issues with "TIBCO RV Adapter for TIBCO FTL"

[Antonio Fermiano]

I'm executing the following scenario:

Sender RV (custom) -> "TIBCO RV Adapter for TIBCO FTL" -> "FTL Cluster" (3 nodes, same machine for testing purposes)-> Receiver FTL (custom)

I'm logging everything I send and receive to be able to verify integrity. Sender is sending ~3mb/s using ~1024 bytes packages. I am using "Shared Memory" transport for the endpoints and "Auto" for communication among clusters/stores.

1) If nothing is restarted in this scenario, integrity check is OK.

2) If I keep restarting "Receiver FTL" and handle duplicated packages properly, integrity check is OK. Durable does its job.

3) If I keep restarting cluster elements to test HAusing these steps:

- Kill cluster element 1, wait 4 seconds, start cluster element 1, wait 15 seconds, kill cluster element 2, etc.

I can see little pauses (a backup node takes leadership, clients reconnect), and everything keeps working. However, my integrity check FAILS, because I lose about 13% of the packages in "Receiver FTL" during several points of the transmission.

4) If instead of "publisher_settings": "store_send_noconfirm" I switch to "publisher_settings": "store_confirm_send", integrity check is OK, however in this configuration I experience severe performance issues (I'm unable to keep receiver rate at 3mb/s in a very powerful physical server).

So my questions are:

a) Is this behavior OK 100% of delivered packages is only possible in "store_confirm_send"

b) Is it expected to not be able to handle 3mb/s in "store_confirm_send" or I'mconfiguring something wrong

I can provide more information about the scenario if necessary.

Thank you in advance.