[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ 1.8.0 release

[Matthew Sackman]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:02:08PM -0400, Ilya Grigorik wrote:
> One of our rabbit servers is ~7GB RAM, and I know that if we push over 250K
> messages into it (heavy messages), and the server hits swap, the server
> starts crawling.. to the tune of being able to get only a few messages a
> second (out). Meaning, we need to nuke the entire queue to bring the server
> back to functional.

You need to be using the new persister branch - compile from source, but
set the server to use branch "bug21673". The raison d'être of the new
persister is to solve problems such as the one you describe.

Matthew