[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ 2.6.1 is unexpectedly eating up memory

Tue Mar 6 12:15:41 GMT 2012

On 06/03/12 11:38, ingo schramm wrote:
> I do *not* use a mirrored queue :)

Ah, right, that's how I read "queues distributed over all nodes".

Hmm. It's still easier to figure out the memory use of RabbitMQ on 
2.7.1, but for 2.6.1 you could check per-queue memory use with 
"rabbitmqctl list_queues name memory" (or look in mgmt). If this doesn't 
bring anything useful up then:

* Become the user the broker is running as
* Run "erl -sname foo -remsh rabbit@$(hostname -s)" to get a shell into 
the running broker
* Invoke "erlang:memory()." for an overview of memory use in the VM.
* Invoke "lists:sublist(lists:reverse(lists:sort([{process_info(Pid,
memory), Pid, process_info(Pid)} || Pid <- processes()])), 10)." for a 
lit of the top 10 memory using processes, and some information on each one.

Cheers, Simon

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Simon MacMullen
RabbitMQ, VMware