[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ 1.7 and persistence limit?

[Sylvain Hellegouarch]

tsuraan a écrit :
>> I'm not versed to Erlang enough to understand how/when it releases
>> memory, it has grabbed. So if there is a sudden burst of messages into
>> RabbitMQ, the memory usage will grow but will it be released eventually?
>>     
>
> Yup.  In practice, I've seen rabbit grow to over 1.5G, and then shrink
> back down to ~200MB as messages are drained.  I don't think I've ever
> seen it shrink down to the memory usage of a totally new rabbit
> server, but it definitely does free up RAM as it runs.
>   
Thanks for the feedback. That's useful to know :)

- Sylvain