[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ block incoming traffic

Simon MacMullen simon at rabbitmq.com
Wed May 7 12:16:07 BST 2014


On 07/05/14 11:27, Haster wrote:
> On RabbitMQ server I have got such message:
> "The disk free space alarm<http://www.rabbitmq.com/memory.html#diskfreesup>
> for this node has gone off. It will block incoming network traffic until the
> amount of free space exceeds the limit."
>
> If I will send messages to RabbitMQ should it close a connection? Or it just
> will throw away messages and won't answer to me?

Neither - it will just stop reading from the socket, so (eventually) 
publishing will block.

See http://www.rabbitmq.com/memory.html for more information and 
http://www.rabbitmq.com/connection-blocked.html for how to find out when 
this has happened.

Cheers, Simon

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Simon MacMullen
RabbitMQ, Pivotal


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