[rabbitmq-discuss] odd consumer behaviour

Fri May 2 12:19:56 BST 2008

David,

David.Corcoran at edftrading.com wrote:
> I think I've hit a problem with prefetching and RabbitMQ. Do you think this
> might be the case?

As I said in my previous email: "the RpcServer [...] will actually 
consume messages from the underlying AMQP queue as fast as it can 
without waiting for them to be processed."

So in effect the RpcServer is doing prefetching.

The easiest way to change that is to switch the way the RpcServer gets 
the messages from a push to a pull model, i.e. using AMQP's basic.get 
rather than basic.consume.

Matthias.