[rabbitmq-discuss] Identify RabbitMQ Broker Process Allocated Memory

[Emile Joubert]

Hi Prabhu,

On 20/03/12 04:50, Saravana.Prabhu at emc.com wrote:
> I would like to know how does the Memory for the RabbitMQ Message Broker
> process is allocated and is there a way to modify it.

Can you explain what you are trying to achieve?

You get some control over how RabbitMQ responds to memory pressure with
the "vm_memory_high_watermark" configuration setting (see
http://www.rabbitmq.com/configure.html and
http://www.rabbitmq.com/memory.html).

Memory for the broker is managed by the underlying Erlang VM. This
includes process heaps and separate space for message storage (Erlang
binaries). There are some internal flags that control Erlang memory
management, but it should not be necessary to touch them.


-Emile