Cheers Tim, On production we have upped the prefetch size to test against JBM-1245 - However it will be at least a couple of weeks before we can decide if this fixes the problem (as the issue happens so infrequently) We have mocked up something along the lines of the messaging bridge and it gave us some surprising results that may interest you: Per 1000 units of work: receive(1000): averaged 1:31 mins Bridge style: averaged 1:17 mins View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4135967#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...