[rabbitmq-discuss] erlang client API: transactions

Wed Sep 24 07:48:52 BST 2008

Edwin,

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Edwin Fine
<rabbitmq-discuss_efine at usa.net> wrote:
> Unfortunately the word "log" has become overloaded. It can mean a log as in
> a journal, which is what I believe the persister log is, or as a message
> log, which is what I was referring to.

The persister log is a journal of all of the published messages that
have the persistent flag set.

> I have seen excessive message logging
> bring systems to their knees. In many cases, people were unaware that the
> message logging was even happening. A web server might be logging every
> single access to a message log, or something else might be running with
> debug logging turned on. I was just trying to point out that this could be
> an issue. I know Rabbit has very little message logging by default, except
> for (at one time) that annoying realm log message.

For people not wanting to wait for the next release to get rid of the
realm messages, they can check out the default branch of the server in
hg.

HTH,

Ben