[rabbitmq-discuss] Scaling Throughput with Highly Available Queues

[Matthias Radestock]

On 19/03/13 23:06, Richard Raseley wrote:
> You have a couple options (that I know of) if your requirements include
> a *single* cluster (which was not my case):
>
> 1) Increase the resources (CPU, disk, memory, network, etc.) which are
> available to the nodes which are hosting the master queue processes.
>
> 2) Ensure that the master queue processes are spread out evenly across
> the available nodes.

...in combination with ensuring that there are no more mirrors than you 
actually need in order to get the desired level of redundancy. I.e. use 
the 'exactly' ha-mode rather than 'all'. Otherwise you are wasting 
valuable resources on keeping superfluous slaves up to date.

Matthias.