[rabbitmq-discuss] protecting the cluster from large messages

[Alexis Richardson]

Mark,

> p.s. I am asking because in my test cluster I can reliably destroy my
> cluster in a negative way with messages that surpass memory resources.  I
> have learned to use the watermark to help manage acceptable large messages
> but the high watermark has not helped to prevent the receipt of a
> destructively large messages.

How big are these messages?

alexis




On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Mark Ward <ward.mark at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does RabbitMQ have a feature to discard a message before saving it to a
> queue and mirroring the message if it is greater than a specific/customized
> size?  I am thinking a message size check would prevent a cluster crash
> because a client sent messages to big to process and mirror.
>
> If so how would I go about setting this up?
>
> I have not found enough information if the frame size is something I can
> try.
>
> -Mark
>
> p.s. I am asking because in my test cluster I can reliably destroy my
> cluster in a negative way with messages that surpass memory resources.  I
> have learned to use the watermark to help manage acceptable large messages
> but the high watermark has not helped to prevent the receipt of a
> destructively large messages.
>
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