[rabbitmq-discuss] Processing error in stomp plugin

Thu Nov 19 09:22:29 GMT 2009

Raj,

Rajkumar S wrote:
> RabbitMQ has stopped responding again and here is the memory usage from top:
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  SWAP COMMAND
> 21098 root      20   0  160m 2140 S    1  2.9  29:45.33  44m beam.smp
> 
> Is 160MB too much memory usage?

Note the 44m of *swap* in the above report. Either your system is 
configured with very little memory or there are other processes that use 
it all.

Rabbit, like most programs, will run very slowly when it starts 
swapping. Therefore the memory manager throttles producers in an attempt 
to get memory usage down.

If, for whatever reason, you really need to use swap, then one option is 
to disable the memory alarms. That is described at
   http://www.rabbitmq.com/extensions.html#memsup

Regards,

Matthias.