[rabbitmq-discuss] mirrored queue cluster

Fri Oct 4 15:38:01 BST 2013

What approach do you guys suggest to have both fault tolerance and scalability as our load increases ..

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From: rabbitmq-discuss-bounces at lists.rabbitmq.com [mailto:rabbitmq-discuss-bounces at lists.rabbitmq.com] On Behalf Of Tim Watson
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On 4 Oct 2013, at 15:25, "PATAR, SAGAR" <sp345s at att.com> wrote:

> Adding more slaves to the cluster will increase the capacity the cluster handles.. Is the statement correct??
> 

No, adding slaves creates redundancy but doesn't increase capacity. If anything, it will decrease capacity (in terms of being able to mod data through the cluster) due to the added overhead. Mirroring is a fault tolerance feature, not a load/capacity increasing one.

Hth.

Tim
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