[rabbitmq-discuss] Bound Queues

Tue May 18 12:09:08 BST 2010

Vick,

Vick Khera wrote:
> What if my producers used the "mandatory" flag to detect if the queue
>  is full, and then just pause for a while if it is?

I think you mean the "immediate" flag. Yes, that would sort of work but 
if all producers do the same, all the time, then rabbit would never 
queue any messages at all. I'm guessing that is probably not what you want.

> If I use a large-RAM box for my queue server, will rabbitmq use more
> of it?

Yes. As long as you are on a 64-bit Unix with a recent version of Erlang.

Matthias.