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Re: What is the maximum size for a fix message?
SriPavan Thayaparan <>
18 Jul 2008 1:58AM ET

Hi,
Maximum size, in general is taken as 100,000 bytes, which I feel will never be reached in the near future. This is far beyond the MTU and would cause fragmentation and degraded performance. This limit works well as the worst case with almost all the exchanges in the USA.

Rgds,
Thaya.

> I am not aware of any mention in the FIX spec regarding limitation on
> the length of a single FIX message.
>
> > Specially for message 'J', our business side is trying to test the
> > limit, to see how many allocations can be handled in one message. The
> > machine resources always have the limit, however what is the FIX
> > standard for the maximum length of a message?
> >
> > -Jue Wang

What is the maximum size for a fix message?
Jue Wang / Pershing   9 May 2008 10:31AM ET

Re: What is the maximum size for a fix message?
Mahesh Kumaraguru   9 May 2008 11:17AM ET

Re: What is the maximum size for a fix message?
SriPavan Thayaparan   18 Jul 2008 1:58AM ET