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Depending on the queue size you define on your publisher (or subscriber), and the rate at which you are publishing (or processing the incoming messages) it is perfectly possible that the publisher (or subscriber) is dropping messages.

Try to increase the publisher and subscriber queue sizes and see if this still happens.

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