[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ and queue message limits?

Wed Sep 1 04:38:22 BST 2010

Scott,

Scott Brooks wrote:
> If you are willing to throw away messages when resources are
> constrained, how hard would it be to store a timestamp when you
> publish the message, and in your consumer check the age and discard if
> it's too old.

I believe in Christian's setup consumers may operate very slowly, or not 
connect at all for a very long time. Meanwhile messages are piling up at 
the server, which will eventually hit hard resource limits, namely disk 
space. So a mechanism is needed for messages to be evicted *in the 
absence of cooperating consumers*.

Matthias.