[rabbitmq-discuss] rabbitmq memory grows with queue size

Brian Whitman brian at echonest.com
Mon Jun 15 15:15:38 BST 2009


Would love to try this out -- are there any configuration things I need to
know about, or will a default build from the branch "just work"?

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Alexis Richardson <
alexis.richardson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Chuck - that's correct :-)
>
> Jack, all,
>
> The "page to disk" feature is now getting into QA and should be
> visible on a branch on the repo.  If you would like to help us QA this
> please speak out.  Matthias, as per usual, is in charge of getting
> this feature into a releasable state.
>
> The new feature enables messages that are persisted to exist on disk
> and not in memory.  Previously persisted data would remain in memory
> as well as being written to disk.
>
> More generally, you can still drain queues into any store
> programmatically, in the meantime.
>
> alexis
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Chuck Remes<cremes.devlist at mac.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Jun 11, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Jack Moffitt wrote:
> >
> >> Perhaps I missed a config option, but I am running out of memory on
> >> the machines running rabbitmq-server.
> >>
> >> I have two queues and two fanout exchanges (each queue is bound to one
> >> of the exchanges).   As the queue size grows so does memory use, even
> >> though both queues are durable. and the messages persistent.  Does
> >> rabbitmq require everything in memory as well even for persistent
> >> queues?
> >
> > Regardless of queue type or settings, RabbitMQ stores all messages in
> > memory. There is work on a new "persister" ongoing in one of the
> > development branches to resolve this limitation. As far as I know
> > there hasn't been any date set for its release, but it should be
> > sometime this year.
> >
> > cr
> >
> >
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