[rabbitmq-discuss] does rabbit eat memory?

Fri Nov 26 16:19:15 GMT 2010

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 04:15:53PM +0000, Robert Fuller wrote:
> Having noticed memory consumption on our server I ran a test of using
> a clean install, and adding 3600 messages to the queue, then consuming
> these messages and checking for memory usage using top command. I
> notice that the memory used by rabbitmq slowly creeps upwards.

Are you acknowledging messages or consuming with noAck/autoAck = true ?

Matthew