[rabbitmq-discuss] Introducing the RabbitMQ Sharding Plugin

[Alvaro Videla]

Hi,

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Jason McIntosh <mcintoshj at gmail.com> wrote:
>   The one thing I didn't see in the post was how many consumers you'd need.
> It sounds like you'd need at least N consumers where N is the number of
> nodes in the shard?  With the shoveling config, we'd need to dynamically
> grow consumers to adapt to the cluster size it sounds like.
>

Yes, at the moment you would need 1 consumer per shard. So if the
shard-per-node value is 4, then you'd need 4 consumers per node in the
cluster.

Regards,

Alvaro