Thanks for the explanation of the round-robin nature of the clustered connection factory as well as message redistribution and partial queues. In general round robin is not as efficient as a "single" queue with multiple servers (as Tim pointed out in the initial email), which is what your partial queues with message redistribution attempts to simulate. So if you removed message redistribution (and partial queues), you would need another way to emulate a single logical queue for all nodes to consume from. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4171308#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...