[rabbitmq-discuss] rabbitmq with one producer no consumer

Thu Jul 15 12:53:12 BST 2010

I forgot to say that we are using rabbitmq 1.8.0 on linux.

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Ovidiu Deac <ovidiudeac at gmail.com> wrote:
> We are testing a rabbitmq intalation to see how it behaves if there is
> no consumer while the producer publishes messages. The point of the
> test is to see what we can rely on if somehow our consumer processes
> die.
>
> In order to do this we send persistent messages with a 300bytes
> content in a loop and after 200k messages rabbitmq uses 100% processor
> and is unreachable. The memory usage on the machine is only 27%. Even
> when restarting the broker it won't start anymore.
>
> Any ideas how I can tune rabbitmq to deal with this situation?
>
> Thanks,
> Ovidiu
>