[rabbitmq-discuss] Correct way of determining which node is master?

[Matthew Sackman]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:39:04AM -0800, Matt Pietrek wrote:
> | Messages are *always* read from the master node (for a given queue).
> 
> This is very helpful. Going a step further, is it true to say that in a
> cluster where we mirror all queues, there's really no benefit to assigning
> the VIP to one node over another?

Correct, though for performance reasons you might like to ensure the
masters are roughly uniformly spread over all the nodes.

Matthew