[rabbitmq-discuss] millions of unack'd messages in a day -- disk store instead of ram?

Mon Apr 27 16:53:25 BST 2009

Brian,

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Brian Whitman <brian at echonest.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Alexis Richardson
> <alexis.richardson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Brian
>> You may find this blog post relevant:
>>
>> http://www.lshift.net/blog/2009/04/02/cranial-surgery-giving-rabbit-more-memory
>
> Ah great, putting an EBS swap behind it is probably a good temp solution.
> I'll give that a go and run some tests. Thanks for the pointer. I wouldn't
> recommend anyone use S3 for this-- we max out at about 40-50 "keys"/files a
> second from other ec2 instances.

I have heard others have been successful with EBS.  Please do let us
all know how you get on!

alexis