[rabbitmq-discuss] Can RabbitMQ handle big messages?

Sat Mar 10 18:34:43 GMT 2012

Hi, Zabrane:  In theory the AMQP protocol IIRC allows crazy large message payloads (2^64 bytes I believe).  In practice though, that's madness since you end up with potential copying and buffering along the way that could make a broker very unhealthy.

For moving bulk binary data as in your app, you'd be wise to fragment at the producer and reassemble at the destination/consumer. Keeping your chunks in the 100KB range might be a decent place to start experimenting.  

Sent from my iPhone (Brevity and typos are hopefully the result of 1-fingered typing rather than rudeness or illiteracy).

On Mar 10, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Zabrane Mickael <zabrane3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I've a set (~1 million) of high resolution PNG files  each one between 100MB and 1GB size.
> I'd like to know if RabbitMQ is capable of handling such files as messages?
> 
> What's the max allowed message size?
> 
> Thx ...
> 
> Regards,
> Zabrane
> 
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