Hi Allan, currently akka-stream can only be materialized to actors on one ActorSystem. Materialization to remote actors or cluster will come eventually, but not soon.
However you can still use ActorPublisher and ActorSubscriber with remote actors. Having said that, you need to keep in mind that sending very big messages via remoting may make actor system less responsive, because various system messages would possibly not get through in time. Better approach for sending very large messages over the network would be to write custom message serving and retrieval using akka-io. On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Allan Brighton <allane...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > An actor needs to receive messages containing the binary contents of files > that can be around 35mb in size. > Rather than sending an actor message containing an Array[Byte] would it > make sense to send a message containing an Akka Stream > (for example, a Source[Byte])? Would this also work with remote actors? > > Would it be better for performance to break the data up into chunks (using > source.grouped(chunkSize)) on the sending side? > (The receiving actor needs to save the file to disk.) > > Thanks, > Allan > > -- > >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ > >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: > http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html > >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Akka User List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to akka-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to akka-user@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Martynas Mickevičius Typesafe <http://typesafe.com/> – Reactive <http://www.reactivemanifesto.org/> Apps on the JVM -- >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: >>>>>>>>>> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Akka User List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to akka-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to akka-user@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
