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| [Features](features) > [Performance](performance) |
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| Performance |
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| Performance differs greatly depending on many different factors |
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| * the network [topology](topologies) |
| * transport [protocols](uri-Connectivity/protocols) used |
| * [quality of service](qos) |
| * hardware, network, JVM and operating system |
| * number of producers, number of consumers |
| * distribution of messages across destinations along with message size |
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| To give you an idea of the kinds of performance you can expect from ActiveMQ we have a bunch of [JMeter Performance Tests](jmeter-performance-tests) that you can run on your hardware with the protocols of your choice. |
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| The last test run we ran was on a small network of 2 dual CPU opteron linux boxes (64 bit) running SuSe and with Java 5 from Sun. |
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| When running the server on one box and a single producer and consumer thread in separate VMs on the other box, using a single topic we got around 21-22,000 messages/second using 1-2K messages. Another test running the broker on a Intel Celeron CPU 2.40GHz we got 2000 messages/second on a durable queue with 1 producer and 1 consumer thread on another box. So your milleage may vary greatly on your environment. |
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| ### Performance Testing |
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| We have a few tools to help you evaluate performance. |
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| * [ActiveMQ Performance Module Users Manual](activemq-classic-performance-module-users-manual) |
| * [Load Testing with Camel](load-testing-with-camel) |
| * [JMeter Performance Tests](jmeter-performance-tests) |
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| Performance guides |
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| If you're not convinced by performance reports then please do try running performance tests yourself. You might wanna check out our overview of [Performance](performance) or try using out the [ActiveMQ Performance Module Users Manual](activemq-classic-performance-module-users-manual) |
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| [Commercial providers](support#commercial-support) may also be able to help diagnose performance issues, suggest changes, etc... |
