Github user revans2 commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/2241 I have run some more tests looking at modifying the parallelism of different components. First I kept the parallelism of everything else at 4 and modified the acker count.  I also kept the ackers at 2 spout and count at 4 and modified the splitter count  The acker drop off at 5 is really scary, but adding too many splitters also shows a lot of problems. I am going to try something similar without the patch for comparison. Overall the numbers look really good in some situations, but it is really easy to slip into much worse territory. @knusbaum said that he was able to get a multi-worker setup to work, so that is something else I want to explore.
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