[rabbitmq-discuss] Rabbit - Crash?
Simon MacMullen
simon at rabbitmq.com
Thu Sep 27 10:14:41 BST 2012
On 26/09/12 23:45, Matthias Radestock wrote:
>> I think you're right. The node Rabbit is running on is a development one
>> with limited disk space.
>>
>> Knowing that, I put the following in rabbit config:
>>
>> {rabbit, [{disk_free_limit, 2097152}
>> ]},
>>
>> It might have influenced.
>> I just did not expect rabbit to crash, rather to raise some alarms.
>
> I suspect the rabbit logs will show that an alarm was raised.
>
> Rabbit's response to such an alarm is to block all publishers, since
> messages are generally the main source of memory and disk space growth
> in rabbit, by some margin.
In addition, if the alarm goes off when there is only 2MB of disc space
left, you're essentially stuck anyway - even blocking publishers is very
unlikely to happen fast enough to stop you from consuming disc space
before you run out of space.
Cheers, Simon
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Simon MacMullen
RabbitMQ, VMware
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