[rabbitmq-discuss] Consumer setup performance / starvation issue

[flzz]

Glad to be helpful,  thanks for the interim solution as well!

Etrik

On Jun 20, 3:22 pm, Matthias Radestock <matth... at rabbitmq.com> wrote:
> Etrik,
>
> On 20/06/11 19:55, flzz wrote:
>
> > Yup, certainly does change the behavior.  I put a 1ms sleep before the
> > ack and all the workers establish a full consumer connection in a
> > reasonable amount of time.
>
> Excellent.
>
> Currently rabbit queues prioritise certain operations over others. There
> are good reasons for doing that which I don't want you to bore with, but
> the outcome in this case is that when a set of workers can keep up with
> the flow of messages dispatched to them by a queue, then additional
> workers may get starved.
>
> Note that when this happens the additional workers wouldn't actually
> result in the work getting processed more quickly, even if they were
> getting messages.
>
> Nevertheless, this behaviour is undesirable, so I've filed a bug to fix it.
>
> Thanks for reporting this! It's interesting that you are the first
> person to spot the issue even though the behaviour has been like this
> for years. I guess most users either run fewer workers than you or their
> workers spend longer processing each message.
>
> Regards,
>
> Matthias.
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