[rabbitmq-discuss] Why Clustering ? Load Balancing

Tue Apr 30 09:26:12 BST 2013

How many RabbitMQ servers you running? Where is RabbitMQ on your picture?
I would assume you are running it on "producer server" but how many instances of rabbit do you have?

On 30 Apr 2013, at 07:30, tluck <tilak.chauhan at ymail.com> wrote:

> Hi Simon,
> 
> Thanks for your reply. 
> 
>> I assume that each consumer is churning through messages quite fast? It
> would need to be in order for the short pause mentioned about to be 
> enough to have only 5-8 messages unacknowledged in this scenario. 
> 
> Consumers are taking long time to consume each message (30+ seconds/
> message). While consuming a message each consumer has to do some tasks (DB
> update, Data Scrapping, sending email etc...) and all this takes certainly a
> good amount of time. I also tried to slow down message consuming process by
> adding sleep function in consumer code, but still I see only  5-8 messages
> being consumed at a time by all the consumers. This means, load is not being
> properly balanced among the consumers.
> 
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>> I'm not sure what this means. From your description it sounds like you
> *do* have a cluster. You say you have multiple RabbitMQ servers, and you 
> are observing the message stats for all of them in one management 
> interface? That sounds like a cluster to me. 
> 
> Sorry for not being clear. I've one producer server which is responsible for
> creating queues and adding messages into them. RabbitMQ management plugin is
> also installed in the producer server. On the other hand, I have 3 consumers
> (on different servers) and every consumer sever is running 5 parallel
> processes (because I've 5 queues) . Please also see the attached file to
> understand producer and consumer association.  ProducerConsumerDiagram.pdf
> <http://rabbitmq.1065348.n5.nabble.com/file/n26292/ProducerConsumerDiagram..pdf> 
> . RabbitMQ has tutorial/guidelines (at
> http://www.rabbitmq.com/clustering.html) for implementing clustering on
> rabbitmq servers. This tutorial asks developers to copy erlang.cookie from
> one server to another and there is step wise process described to apply
> clustering on the rabbitmq severs. When started to setup my severs, I never
> followed such tutorial (I mean, i didn't copy cookie or ran join_cluster or
> any other clustering related commands), But all my consumer servers are
> still being able to communicate with producer server through private IP. I'm
> trying to say that I didn't follow clustering guidelines provided by
> Rabbitmq, is this can be the possible cause for my problem  ? (load should
> be balanced properly among the consumers).
> 
> Thanks
> T.luck
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