[rabbitmq-discuss] Performance tests and a warning on HIPE

[Gavin M. Roy]

On Friday, March 8, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Simon MacMullen wrote:

> > Now for the warnings: 1) TURN OFF HIPE. This was testing with
> > Erlang R15B03 - the latest release and RabbitMQ 3.0.2. With HIPE and
> > the load we were putting on the system, Rabbit crashes bad, no
> > errors, no warning, it's just suddenly dead. It seems to happen a
> > few minutes into the load. I've not enabled any kind of debugging to
> > trace this down, but this was scary enough that we immediately turned
> > off HIPE everywhere.
> > 
> 
> 
> That certainly is scary, and unlike our experiences - we've generally 
> seen HiPE crash immediately or work fine. I suspect the platform is an 
> issue here. But yes, you should be cautious turning on HiPE in production...
> 
> 

This is my experience as well on both CentOS 5.3 and 6.3 with R15B0 (and previous versions) with all versions of RabbitMQ we run (Everything from 2.7.1 -> 3.0.2)

Cheers,

Gavin
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