[rabbitmq-discuss] server crashes with very fast consumers

Fri Mar 11 08:38:44 GMT 2011

Alex,

alex chen wrote:
>  > Can you post your test code?
> 
> it is the same rabbitmq-c consumer code that i attached in previous thread:
> http://lists.rabbitmq.com/pipermail/rabbitmq-discuss/2010-August/008585.html
> The problem can be reproduced by first publishing 20 GB of messages 
> (each message is 20 KB) into 1000 queues, then start 1000 consumers at 
> the same time to consume those messages.  within 1 minute the broker 
> would crash.

Any chance you could script the above to the point where all one needs 
to do is:
1) start clean rabbit
2) run test script
3) wait for broker to die
?

I want to make sure that in trying to reproduce the problem we follow 
*exactly* the same steps.

Regards,

Matthias.