<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I've been seeing a problem on and off with rabbitmq using a ton of memory with few messages which is suddenly much worse today.</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">This morning, I upgraded to (<span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: right;">RabbitMQ 3.1.5.41008, </span><acronym class="normal" title="Erlang R14B04 (erts-5.8.5) [source] [64-bit] [smp:16:16] [rq:16] [async-threads:30] [kernel-poll:true]" style="background-image: none; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); padding: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px; border-bottom-left-radius: 2px; border-style: none none
dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: right;">Erlang R14B04) using the nightly build from </acronym><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">08-Oct-2013.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">About 6 hours later I have 19GB of memory in use with 800 messages. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);
font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">According to the management console, the messages are using up 2mb and 19GB is in "binaries".</span></div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;
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</div><div class="p1">Is this a known issue that is being actively investigated?</div><div class="p2" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">I'm happy to provide addition details if it will help work towards a resolution.</span></div></div></body></html>