[rabbitmq-discuss] Protection against slow consumers

[Alexis Richardson]

Christian, Jiri,

What are your thoughts on per message TTLs for this?

alexis


On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Christian Legnitto
<clegnitto at mozilla.com> wrote:
> There is not something like http://activemq.apache.org/slow-consumer-handling.html for Rabbit. You can sort of approximate it with a maintenance script that sweeps through and drains messages from a queue depending on a heuristic of your choice.
>
> We are interested in something like this too (see my message titled "Missing features making me look at moving off RabbitMQ" to the list).
>
> Thanks,
> Christian
>
> On Nov 1, 2010, at 9:33 AM, jiri at krutil.com wrote:
>
>> Hi Emile
>>
>>> I assume you have subscribers each set up with their own queue and binding.
>>
>> Yes, each subscriber uses an exclusive auto-delete queue bound to the exchange.
>>
>>> In this case I would expect long queues associated with slow subscribers to be persisted to disk automatically. This prevents RAM pressure, which the broker attempts to relieve by blocking producers.
>>
>> I see what you mean, but what if the subscriber uses a large prefetch buffer and consumes without ever acking?
>>
>> Also, even if long queues get persisted to disk, this consumes resources and the queues can't grow forever.
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>> Is there no way how can we limit the queue size or message time to live?
>>
>>> This assumes that you are running version 2.0.0 or later.
>>
>> We are running RabbitMQ 2.1.0.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jiri
>>
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