[rabbitmq-discuss] Slow shutdown issue

Sat Jul 23 18:30:34 BST 2011

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:38:38PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote:
> Regardless of whether a persistent msg is written to a transient or
> durable queue, it will eventually get written to disk. If you don't want
> msgs to be written to disk by default then don't publish persistent
> msgs. That way, they'll only get written to disk when you run low on
> memory.

Turns out I can't read my own code. Only persistent msgs sent to durable
queues are immediately scheduled for writing to disk. Of course, all
msgs may still be sent to disk for memory reasons.

Matthew