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Re: Intermittent Heartbeats
ricky godinho / bloomberg
27 May 2005 11:24AM ET Yet another note: I've come across systems that will send a test request if no heartbeat is received when the heartbeat interval is up even if other types of messages are being received.
> > Heartbeats are only required when no other messages have been sent for
> > the Heartbeat Interval, in your case 60 seconds. For example, if a counter-
> > party is sending FIX messages (such as FIX order traffic), they do not
> > need to send Heatbeats until they have stopped sending any other
> > traffic for 60 seconds.
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> Please also note, that heartbeat processing is independent for each
> direction of message flow, ie if one side sends many messages there are
> no heartbeats needed, while the other side may only send heartbeats
> since it has no other messages to be sent. E.g. a subscription to market
> data may show this behaviour: First, some MarketDataRequests are sent
> and then you only receive MarketDataSnapshotFullRefresh etc.
>
> Cheers, Jörg
Re: Intermittent Heartbeats
ricky godinho / bloomberg 27 May 2005 11:24AM ET
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