[rabbitmq-discuss] reading time extending on persistent messages

Thu Jun 30 13:58:47 BST 2011

Hi Arno,

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 03:34:08PM +0200, Arno Puschmann wrote:
> I'm using rabbitmq 2.4.1 on a Ubuntu 10.04. I tested to write  a large
> number (300k) of messages to an persistent queue. Alle messages are
> the same and have a size of 1KB. After this I restartet my system and
> rabbitmq, to go save that nothing is on the memory but all on disk.
> After restarting all, I startet a consumer to readout the messages.
> Now I noticed that reading out the persistent messages took always
> longer. I measured the time for reading out every interval of 3k
> messages. For example, to readout the first 3k messages it took under
> 1sec. After 45k messages it took over 10sec. to readout the next 3k
> messages. After reading 165k messages it took about 30sec. to read the
> next 3000 messages. I have repeat these test several times always with
> a similar result.

I've used your consuming code that you supplied and repeated your test.
I did not reboot, but I did shut down rabbit and cleared out the caches.
I checked and Rabbit does sit there reading at 20MB/s off disk on
consuming.

I sent in 300,000 1KB persistent messages to a durable queue, then
safely shutdown Rabbit and restarted it, after clearing caches. I used
the Erlang client to publish and the Java client (with your code) to
consume the messages. The output I see is below.

Note that this is with the latest from default which will pretty much be
the same as 2.5.1. There haven't been any performance impacting changes
to the persistence layer for a little while. That said, there was quite
a gap between 2.4.1 and 2.5.0 so it may be something came in there.
Checking the release notes for 2.5.0 -
http://lists.rabbitmq.com/pipermail/rabbitmq-discuss/2011-June/013249.html
- there are a number of performance related items but nothing that
strikes as relevant to your test.

Are there any indicators in your RabbitMQ logs that suggest Rabbit's
under memory pressure? Is there contention for the disk drive? Maybe try
upgrading to 2.5.1 and see if that helps?

Best wishes,

Matthew

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