[rabbitmq-discuss] Priorities support in RabbitMQ

Mon Aug 31 12:34:37 BST 2009

On Aug 31, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Matthias Radestock wrote:

> Michal,
>
> Michal Chruszcz wrote:
>> On Aug 28, 2009, at 5:48 PM, Matthew Sackman wrote:
>>> RabbitMQ does not support message priorities at all
>> Thank you for the answer. This makes things quite clear. Then I  
>> just  have to keep my fingers crossed and hope it'll be supported  
>> as soon as  possible.
>
> What do you want to use priorities for? Depending on your use case  
> there could be some fairly straightforward approaches to emulate  
> priorities with the current RabbitMQ releases.

Think so? I've been looking for *something* that could enable me to  
control order of message processing. Say I have distributed  
asynchronous data processing service, which uses RabbitMQ for queueing  
tasks, and would like to prioritize them depending on  data volume  
(tiny packages are processed first). Priorities seemed to be perfect  
solution, but unfortunately later I realized it's not supported yet.

Michal Chruszcz
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