[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ writes non stop to disk

Tue Oct 25 17:04:45 BST 2011

On 25/10/11 16:57, Aaron Westendorf wrote:
> Did you disable vm_memory_high_watermark ?  I've attached graphs of
> our disk usage before and after we enabled it.

Presumably you are using transient messages? If changing 
vm_memory_high_watermark causes a drop in disk usage presumably you are 
no longer paging transient messages out. But persistent messages will 
always get paged out ;) [0]

Cheers, Simon

[0] Inevitably, there are exceptions:

* Persistent messages to transient queues aren't really persistent for 
obvious reasons.

* Persistent messages that go straight out to consumers in no-ack mode 
without being enqueued will not be persisted (why would you?)

* In the future, persistent messages that are consumed then acked before 
they get to the disk will have their writes eliminated. (At the moment 
they get written anyway, even though they're no longer relevant.)

-- 
Simon MacMullen
RabbitMQ, VMware