NSeviceBus - Performance degradation when endpoints are disconnected

Question

I'm looking into using NServiceBus for fault tolerant communications between a central server and many remote located PCs.

I'm running the GateWay sample in the newest (3.2) release, and all works well - with a trial commercial license the performance seems great, sending to 3 remote PCs. But - to test the fault tolerance, if I disconnect one of the PCs, I notice that although the other sites continue to receive messages from the server, the performance suffers greatly - the site can be waiting up to 30 seconds to recieve a message - presumably because the server is busy dealing with retries for the site that is disconnected.

Is there a simple configuration-type answer to this?

Answer 1

I think the problem here was that I hadn't specified the number of worker threads on the server. I changed this to 5 worker threads, and the issue has now gone away.