[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ dying during evaluation testing

Wed Apr 22 13:01:23 BST 2009

Jacek,

Jacek wrote:
> Understand. Is it just a matter of switching from RAM to disk-based tables in
> Mnesia?

Mnesia is only used for routing and config information. It's not 
designed to handle the kind of access patterns and volumes required for 
message storage.

> If you could enhance it to
> start backing up at least some of the queued up messages to disk to ensure
> reliability it would go a long way for us.

Understood. We are working on that, but it's a complex piece of work and 
hence will take a while.

Matthias.