[rabbitmq-discuss] Weird Crash (91MB message over STOMP) [Reproducible]

Thu Aug 13 11:33:03 BST 2009

Darien,

Darien Kindlund wrote:
>> RabbitMQ doesn't implement anything fancy here; if a message doesn't fit
>> into available virtual memory then the broker will die.
> 
> Just as a sanity check... when the broker "dies" in this instance, I
> assume the supervisory code will restart the broker -- correct?

Erlang/OTP's supervisors take care of restarting Erlang processes.
Restarting of the broker as a whole is best left to "standard" tools
like http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

Regards,

Matthias.