[rabbitmq-discuss] about the clustering of rabbitmq

Thu Aug 6 02:21:30 BST 2009

No,if using load balancers, the client just needs to know
the load-balancer server, the load-balancer server will know new
server if new server adds into the cluster.

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Jason J. W.
Williams<jasonjwwilliams at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It's also worth pointing out here that connection.redirect is a bit of a
>> crude, blunt weapon, and in fact has been *removed* for AMQP 0-9-1. When
>> we transition to 0-9-1, it will no longer be available: it will be up to
>> clients to know how to connect to the broker. This seems like a
>> limitation, but I personally view it as an improvement: it means that
>> AMQP concentrates on *messaging*, and leaves load balancing up to load
>> balancers -- as it should :-)
>
>
> From my point of view that's definitely less than desirable. The
> clustered broker has the best point-of-view as to how many clients it
> has connected and how much work it's doing. We're still
> re-architecting our processing facilities around RMQ for the explicit
> purpose of getting rid of the mess of load balancers we currently use.
> What we've written so far is architected around the idea that a
> primary and backup server are hard-coded into the config for the
> client for initial connect and then the broker handles redirecting the
> client to the least loaded node, which may not in the config file.
> Otherwise, every time you add a Rabbit node you've got to populate
> that info amongst your client config files, which means more moving
> parts. Just my two cents.
>
> -J
>