[rabbitmq-discuss] Simple benchmark and results

[Matthias Radestock]

Sylvain,

Sylvain Hellegouarch wrote:
> I assume this means that if the consumer fails at processing correctly 
> the message it won't see it again right, whereas with an ack by the 
> consumer, one can ensure consistency if the processing fails before the 
> ack call.

Sort of. In auto-ack/no-ack mode the broker forgets about the message as 
soon as it has sent it. So any failure of the broker, network or 
consuming client after the sending will result in the message being 
lost. By contrast, when acks are enabled the broker only forgets about a 
message when the client has sent it an ack. Any failure before then 
results in an eventual retransmit.


Regards,

Matthias.