FTP file pickup is slow on FTP source. How can I speed it up?

Question

I have thousands of files on my ftp source. It is picking up one file every few minutes. How can I speed this up.

Answer 1

The default for Camel is to get one file per Poll(listing the files). You can change this to get a set number of files per Poll or List:

maxMessagesPerPoll=???

This is set on the source node as a custom Apache Camel parameter: