# RabbitMQ river performance question

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rabbitmq-river-performance-question/13549>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 11, 2013, 8:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rabbitmq-river-performance-question/13549 "2013-09-11T08:19:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![ku3ia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c89c15/32.png) [@ku3ia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ku3ia)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2013, 8:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rabbitmq-river-performance-question/13549/1 "2013-09-11T08:19:23Z")

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Please advise!  
I'm using RabbitMQ with elasticsearch server. I have an multithread application that's publishes messages to RabbitMQ. It wakes up one connection and for example three channels.

What's will be faster or better: publish one big message near 500-600 documents per thread, or publish 4-5 more smaller messages, near 100-150 documents per thread

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rabbitmq-river-performance-question/13549/2 "2017-07-06T02:17:08Z")

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