[rabbitmq-discuss] rabbitmq with one producer no consumer

[Robert Raschke]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Ovidiu Deac <ovidiudeac at gmail.com> wrote:

> ...and the erlang version is "R13B01"
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Ovidiu Deac <ovidiudeac at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I forgot to say that we are using rabbitmq 1.8.0 on linux.
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Ovidiu Deac <ovidiudeac at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> We are testing a rabbitmq intalation to see how it behaves if there is
> >> no consumer while the producer publishes messages. The point of the
> >> test is to see what we can rely on if somehow our consumer processes
> >> die.
> >>
> >> In order to do this we send persistent messages with a 300bytes
> >> content in a loop and after 200k messages rabbitmq uses 100% processor
> >> and is unreachable. The memory usage on the machine is only 27%. Even
> >> when restarting the broker it won't start anymore.
> >>
> >> Any ideas how I can tune rabbitmq to deal with this situation?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Ovidiu
> >>
> >
>
>
I think you should use some flow control. If your Rabbit has the memory
alerts turned on, then your producer can pick up the
channel.flow/active=false and stop sending until you get the active=true.

Otherwise your sending of persistent message will eventually make Rabbit run
out of resources.

Robby
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