[rabbitmq-discuss] Determining Cause of Flow-Control Invocation

Fri Oct 4 16:00:09 BST 2013

On 04/10/2013 3:54PM, Michael Klishin wrote:
>> >So, my question is - what other things can I look at to determine the cause of the invocation of flow control
> There are 3 cases when RabbitMQ will block publishers (until the underlying problem
> is resolved):
>
>   * It consumes more RAM than vm_high_memory_watermark
>   * Node has less disk space left than the configured minimum limit
>   * RabbitMQ process is out of available file descriptors (ulimit -n)

I think the OP was talking about this:

http://www.rabbitmq.com/memory.html#per-connection

not this:

http://www.rabbitmq.com/memory.html#memsup

I think so, anyway.

Cheers, Simon

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Simon MacMullen
RabbitMQ, Pivotal