A few details in case they matter:<div><br><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">> RabbitMQ v2.7.1</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">> erlang 5.8.5</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">> client python library pika 0.9.5</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">> python version 2.7</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">> rabbit and clients running on CentOS 6.2</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">> rabbit VM has 2GB RAM, 8 cores (I mistakenly said 4-cores in the original posting)</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">> client VM has 4GB RAM, 4 cores</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;
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