[rabbitmq-discuss] Determining age of queue contents

[Alexander Staubo]

On Monday, January 23, 2012 at 12:37 , Simon MacMullen wrote:
> On 22/01/12 14:23, Alexander Staubo wrote:
> 1. The only way to reliably infer the true processing rate of a queue
> > is to implement a stateful watching algorithm, being a function both
> > of the current processing rate as well as the *growth rate* of the
> > queue ...
> 
> 
> Why would such a plugin need to be stateful? Note that growth rate (only 
> since the last sample, like all the rates we show) is available from 
> mgmt as of 2.7.1. Was that what you meant? If not can you explain what 
> calculation you would want?


I didn't know that the growth rate had been exposed. That helps. Thanks.