[rabbitmq-discuss] Suggestion for enabling users view data in queues

[Bruce Dou]

Where can I find RabbitMQ internal design documents or ideas?


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Simon MacMullen <simon at rabbitmq.com> wrote:

> On 30/09/2013 04:44, Bruce Dou wrote:
>
>> How do you think about enabling users view data in queues?
>>
>
> Being able to view queue contents in a random-access manner is not very
> compatible with the existing behaviour of RabbitMQ queues where they can be
> paged out to disk (yes, it would be possible, but it would be a huge job
> and not exactly likely to be fast).
>
> You can currently kinda-sorta view contents of queues in the management
> interface - this works behind the scenes by consuming the messages without
> acknowledgement, then requeueing them. This doesn't scale well to huge
> numbers of messages.
>
> It's unclear whether there would be any use for a limited queue browsing
> feature in between these two cases - something that could list messages
> that happen to be in memory but not those that are paged out. Conceivably
> there could be but it's not really top of our list of priorities right now.
>
> Cheers, Simon
>



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