[rabbitmq-discuss] Load Balancing Consumers

Thu Sep 8 15:20:39 BST 2011

You will achieve this with RabbitMQ out of the box. It already does
loadbalancing between consumers, giving exactly what you want if you
set a low or zero value for prefetch (BasicQos).

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Uday Subbarayan
<uday.subbarayan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>          I have a need to load balance consumers on a queue. I saw a similar
> thread last month-
> http://lists.rabbitmq.com/pipermail/rabbitmq-discuss/2011-August/014533.html
>
> My requirements are little different. Publisher ----> sends messages --->
> Queue <------ 1 or more consumers listens on this queue.
>
> All my consumers are the same application. I need to load balance(simple
> round robin) the consumers so that my load gets distributed. For example if
> i have 2 consumers and publishers sends 2 messages to the queue, message 1
> should go to consumer 1 and message 2 should to consumer 2 and this logic
> repeats.
>
> Any idea/thoughts how i can achieve this in Rabbit MQ?
>
> Thanks,
> -Uday.
>
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