diff --git a/bench_tq.sh b/bench_tq.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ffa0d10e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bench_tq.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -e
+
+go test -c ./pkg/varlog
+./varlog.test -test.v -test.run - -test.bench BenchmarkTransmitQueue -test.count 20 -test.benchmem -test.timeout 10h | tee out
+grep -v PreAlloc out | sed 's,/NoAlloc,,g' >out.NoAlloc
+grep -v NoAlloc out | sed 's,/PreAlloc,,g' >out.PreAlloc
+benchstat out.NoAlloc out.PreAlloc
diff --git a/pkg/varlog/benchmark_test.go b/pkg/varlog/benchmark_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2e3cd6745
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/varlog/benchmark_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+package varlog
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"math/rand"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/kakao/varlog/internal/storagenode/client"
+	"github.com/kakao/varlog/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/kakao/varlog/proto/varlogpb"
+)
+
+func BenchmarkTransmitQueue(b *testing.B) {
+	sizes := []int{1 << 7, 1 << 10, 1 << 13}
+	tcs := []struct {
+		generate func(int) *transmitQueue
+		name     string
+	}{
+		{
+			name: "NoAlloc",
+			generate: func(int) *transmitQueue {
+				return &transmitQueue{
+					pq: &PriorityQueue{},
+				}
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "PreAlloc",
+			generate: func(size int) *transmitQueue {
+				return &transmitQueue{
+					pq: newPriorityQueue(size),
+				}
+			},
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tc := range tcs {
+		for _, size := range sizes {
+			name := fmt.Sprintf("%s/%d", tc.name, size)
+			b.Run(name, func(b *testing.B) {
+				b.ResetTimer()
+				for range b.N {
+					tq := tc.generate(size)
+					for range size {
+						tr := transmitResult{
+							result: client.SubscribeResult{
+								LogEntry: varlogpb.LogEntry{
+									LogEntryMeta: varlogpb.LogEntryMeta{
+										GLSN: types.GLSN(rand.Int31()),
+									},
+								},
+							},
+						}
+						tq.Push(tr)
+					}
+				}
+			})
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/pkg/varlog/subscribe.go b/pkg/varlog/subscribe.go
index 1bc34b668..c6da7e6e8 100644
--- a/pkg/varlog/subscribe.go
+++ b/pkg/varlog/subscribe.go
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ func (v *logImpl) subscribe(ctx context.Context, topicID types.TopicID, begin, e
 		sleq:              sleq,
 		wanted:            begin,
 		end:               end,
-		transmitQ:         &transmitQueue{pq: &PriorityQueue{}},
+		transmitQ:         &transmitQueue{pq: newPriorityQueue(int(end - begin))},
 		transmitCV:        transmitCV,
 		timeout:           subscribeOpts.timeout,
 		runner:            runner.New("transmitter", tlogger),
@@ -89,6 +89,12 @@ type PriorityQueueItem interface {
 
 type PriorityQueue []PriorityQueueItem
 
+func newPriorityQueue(size int) *PriorityQueue {
+	items := make([]PriorityQueueItem, 0, size)
+	pq := PriorityQueue(items)
+	return &pq
+}
+
 func (pq PriorityQueue) Len() int { return len(pq) }
 
 func (pq PriorityQueue) Less(i, j int) bool {