Re: [Quickfix-users] Resend Request question

[Osbert F. <oz...@hu...>]

Vincent Predoehl wrote:

> I have a test program that is dumping mass quantities of trades through 
> QF.  After dumping 20,000 or so trades, I get a resend request because a 
> message got lost.  Am I supposed to do something when that happens, on 
> either side or does quickfix handle the resending of any data?  The 
> phenomenon occurs when I try testing with 30000, or 40000 trades.  
> 20,000 trades or less seems to work fine.
> 
> When things go fast, say 1000 trades every 3 seconds, I'm guessing QF 
> doesn't have the ability to resend if something goes wrong.

http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/html/configuration.html

Under Storage, PersistMessages, is your configuration explicitly set to 
Y?  Documentation seems to imply that if PersistMessages is N (like by 
default), QF will only send gap fills and not actually resend.