[rabbitmq-discuss] Queue Size

Tue Jan 3 16:07:01 GMT 2012

Hi Poorna,

On 03/01/12 15:46, Poorna Chander Kola wrote:
> How we can find the phisical memory, the persistent queue is occupied on
> disk. Please show some light on it. Thank you

You can find out how much RAM a queue consumes with
"rabbitmqctl list_queues name memory".

You can get an idea of how many messages are on disk by calling
"rabbitmqctl list_queues name memory backing_queue_status"
and noting the "persistent_count" value. Bear in mind that this is not
part of the published interface, and it only provides a message count.

-Emile