[rabbitmq-discuss] Performance degrades with increasing queue depth

[Matthias Radestock]

Aisha,

aisha fenton wrote:
> I'm sure I'm doing something wrong since I can't find reference to
> this anywhere else. What I'm seeing is that the performance of
> draining a queue gets slower as the queue size increases.

Are the messages marked as persistent? If so then what you are seeing is 
another characteristic of the current persister which will be addressed 
in 1.7. Try non-persistent messages for a comparison.


Regards,

Matthias.