[rabbitmq-discuss] New Persister merged into default

[Matthew Sackman]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:57:16AM -0500, Srijanani Srinivasan wrote:
> Can you guys tell me more about the new persister that is going to be
> released? We are currently using RabbitMQ in our applications and using all
> persistent messages.  But we have noticed that when we have like say
> millions of messages in the queue, the server goes down which is not
> desired. Does the new persister target these issues? 

In a word: yes.

The new persister is explicitly designed to target these kinds of
scalability issues: ensuring that Rabbit can easily and happily store
more messages than RAM permits and in some cases getting very close to
zero RAM cost per message.

Matthew