[rabbitmq-discuss] Performance degrades with increasing queue depth

[Chuck Remes]

Aisha is mistaken. The ruby amqp library does not use libevent  
anywhere. It uses EventMachine under the covers which is a home-grown  
reactor written in C that uses select, poll and kqueue depending on  
the platform.

cr


On Sep 8, 2009, at 8:33 AM, Ben Hood wrote:

> Aisha,
>
> Not wanting to hijack this thread another time, but....
>
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Aisha  
> Fenton<aisha.fenton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The library I'm using (http://github.com/celldee/bunny/tree/master)  
>> is
>> synchronous only. I'm considering switching to (http://github.com/tmm1/amqp/tree/master
>> ) which is async and uses libevent. However, I've read that there are
>> problems with msg acknowledges in apps that use libevent, because the
>> OS can buffer the ack responses. And although I'm not using ack  
>> yet, I
>> want to in my production system.
>
> I am interested as to what the specific issue is with sending acks
> with libevent - are you saying that the app can issue an ack and this
> can potentially go AWOL between the the libevent API returning and the
> point it time when the AMQP frame is actually written to the socket?
>
> Ben