[rabbitmq-discuss] abnormally large memory use in "binaries"

Tue Oct 15 16:34:21 BST 2013

> How did you determine the average message size? Is it possible that the
> queue could contain a small number of extremely large messages that skew
> the average?

The messages on that queue are generated from a very small Java model object.

I looked at a sample from the routing key that queue listens to and the average is from 1000 message.

>> Does the memory use increase gradually or in large jumps?

It seems to be pretty gradual up until it hit the ceiling.

> I'm not aware of any bugs that could explain the problem you describe.
> Could you supply the output of "rabbitmqctl report" while you observe
> the reported condition?

Sure, thing. I grabbed it at 10 minute intervals, but can do a finer granularity if needed.

I'll try to attach it to this post. 

If that doesn't work, I'll upload it somewhere are post a url.

I started it on 2013/10/14 at 10:53 and around 2:53 it hit 18gb and stayed there till one of the guys restarted it around 5:24 pm.

Just for fun, here is the size of "binary" as a sort of summary of the usage:

 {"10:53":0.13, "11:03":1.03, "11:13":2.25, "11:23":2.98, "11:33":3.27, "11:43":3.66, "11:53":4.09, "12:03":4.55, "12:13":5.21, "12:23":6.87, "12:33":9.28, "12:43":9.49, "12:53":10.58, "13:03":10.16, "13:13":11.28, "13:23":12.13, "13:33":12.72, "13:43":14.01, "13:53":13.03, "14:03":14.16, "14:13":15.37, "14:23":15.21, "14:33":16.27, "14:43":17.33, "14:53":18.37, "15:03":18.79, "15:13":18.78, "15:23":18.89, "15:33":18.72, "15:43":18.83, "15:53":18.83, "16:03":18.79, "16:14":18.79, "16:24":18.79, "16:34":18.78, "16:44":18.84, "16:54":18.84, "17:04":18.84, "17:14":18.84 }
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