MQ Listener Performance - spring-integration

Question

I am building Docker Containers which have a war file running on Jetty, and I have been alternating a few settings to see if performance improves but nothing so far. Per container it has been achieving 7 tps.
The settings are
<bean id="cachingConnectionFactory" class="org.springframework.jms.connection.CachingConnectionFactory">
<property name="targetConnectionFactory" ref="MQConnectionFactory" />
<property name="sessionCacheSize" value="10"/>
</bean>
<bean id="requestQueue" class="com.ibm.mq.jms.MQQueue">
<constructor-arg index="0" value="${queuemanager}"/>
<constructor-arg index="1" value="${incoming.queue}"/>
</bean>
<integration:poller id="poller" default="true" fixed-delay="1000" error-channel="errorChannel"/>
How can I improve the number of threads processing over here?
Also, my connection factory details are as shown below
#Bean(name="DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory")
public DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory provideJmsListenerContainerFactory(PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager) {
DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory factory = new DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory();
factory.setConnectionFactory(connectionFactory());
factory.setTransactionManager(transactionManager);
factory.setConcurrency(jmsConcurrency);
factory.setCacheLevel(jmsCacheLevel);
factory.setSessionAcknowledgeMode(Session.CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE);
factory.setSessionTransacted(true);
return factory;
}
#Bean(name = "txManager")
public PlatformTransactionManager provideTransactionManager() {
return new JmsTransactionManager(connectionFactory());
}
#Bean(name = "JmsTemplate")
public JmsTemplate provideJmsTemplate() {
JmsTemplate jmsTemplate = new JmsTemplate(connectionFactory());
jmsTemplate.setReceiveTimeout(Long.parseLong(env.getRequiredProperty(RECEIVE_TIMEOUT)));
return jmsTemplate;
}
#Bean(name="MQConnectionFactory")
public ConnectionFactory connectionFactory() {
if (factory == null) {
factory = new MQXAConnectionFactory();
try {
factory.setHostName(env.getRequiredProperty(HOST));
factory.setPort(Integer.parseInt(env.getRequiredProperty(PORT)));
factory.setQueueManager(env.getRequiredProperty(QUEUE_MANAGER));
factory.setChannel(env.getRequiredProperty(CHANNEL));
factory.setTransportType(WMQConstants.WMQ_CM_CLIENT);
} catch (JMSException e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
}
return factory;
}
The initial setting for the concurrency was '1-2' and I changed that to '10-15'. Did not affect performance.
The jmsCache was set to 3 (Consumer cache), but no change there yet either.
Any help is much appreciated.
Cheers
Kris

Answer 1

Answering my own post here. What we found out was that the problem was actually with our Database pooling not setup correctly in the first place.
But in order to increase the Listener count, I had to change my Spring integration adapter settings
<jms:message-driven-channel-adapter id="jmsIn"
destination="requestQueue"
channel="inputJsonConversionChannel"
connection-factory="cachingConnectionFactory"
error-channel="errorChannel"
concurrent-consumers="${jms_adapter_concurrent_consumers}" />
Only when the concurrent-consumers is varied, does the number of listeners on the queue increase.