Paul, One of your biggest problems would be amount of redo logs, so be prepared to handle it. IOT maintenance will take a lot depending on the usage pattern. In our experience multi-consumer queues are not working well in 9i so we are trying to avoid them whenever possible. In general, there are quite a few bugs in 9i with AQ. We have a heavy application working with queues... I cannot say what is the rate of pure queues transaction but from middle tier app point of view there are up to 500+ tps in peak time. Application has complex logic, so there might be more (or less) operations with queues themselves. We are on HP-UX if it matters. HTH, Alex On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:35:37 -0500, Paul Vallee <paulvallee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > We have a client that is considering replacing SonicMQ with Oracle AQ > for an application that currently does up to 200 messages per second > and needs to scale well significantly beyond that. > > We have AQ experience with some applications that did 400 messages per > minute but that's a far cry from 200 per second (12000/minute). > > If anyone has experience with Oracle AQ under this kind of workload I > would love to hear of them. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l