[rabbitmq-discuss] Flow Control

[Brian Sullivan]

On Oct 22, 2008, at 4:19 AM, Ben Hood wrote:

>> Yeah, it is a bottleneck, but just for each host - and we are less  
>> worried
>> about latency than we are about fault tolerance, because this is a  
>> logging
>> system.  We currently have a similar system running, and want the  
>> hosts to
>> be able to dump their logging messages easily (locally), then just  
>> have a
>> process to pick this heterogeneous mix of logging messages and  
>> transmit them
>> all to the exchange, on the appropriate topics.
>
> Are you talking about some fast local broker that relays to a slower
> *less-local* broker thus giving the producer the maximum amount of
> bandwith in order to do a reliable fire and forget?
>>

What we have is a simple log file that we are then tailing and  
converting into messages - this allows us to be logging in a simple  
way, using our existing code, then we can attach a reader to funnel  
these messages into a more flexible messaging system like RabbitMQ.   
There we subscribe across the event types (topics) and consume in  
various ways.  The log file is both a reliable "fire and forget", as  
well as a common format to be consumed by other processes if we needed.

So while it might be a bottleneck to mix all the messages together,  
it's an acceptable one from our standpoint.  Let me know if I am still  
unclear, or if you see something wrong with this approach.  Thanks  
again for the speedy responses on all of this!

Brian