[rabbitmq-discuss] questions about distributed queue

Thu Aug 20 11:37:04 BST 2009

Jim Irrer wrote:
> It seems like one of the problems with round robin is that consumers may
> spend
> more time on some messages than others, so you are depending on a random
> distribution to even out the load.

Setting basic.qos prefetch windows might help with this, by breaking out
of strict round-robin. A limit of one, for instance, means that the
server will make sure the limited consumer never has more than a single
outstanding message in its possession. Other messages will be dealt out
to other consumers while the limited consumer is busy.

Tony
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