[rabbitmq-discuss] Message distribution policy

[Simon MacMullen]

These are not OS priorities - the priority is set by an argument to the 
basic.consume method. Multiple consumers within the same OS process can 
have different priorities.

Cheers, Simon

On 03/12/13 11:27, Luis Rascão wrote:
> If i understood correctly multiple consumers with the same high priority
> will receive the messages in round-robin.
> This is easier if the processes were different binaries, they are in
> fact the same binary, to use priorities i would have to attribute higher
> priorities as i launch the multiple instances of the binary, is there
> some other way?
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Simon MacMullen <simon at rabbitmq.com
> <mailto:simon at rabbitmq.com>> wrote:
>
>     Is this what you are looking for?
>
>     http://www.rabbitmq.com/__consumer-priority.html
>     <http://www.rabbitmq.com/consumer-priority.html>
>
>     Cheers, Simon
>
>     On 03/12/13 11:19, Luis Rascão wrote:
>
>         Hi all,
>         Supose you have 3 processes consuming messages from a queue, i
>         guess by
>         default the messages will be distributed to the consumers in a
>         round-robin fashion (p1, p2, p3, p1, etc). Is there a way to
>         change this
>         distribution policy so that always the first free process
>         handles the
>         message? For example if p1 is always available then it would
>         handle all
>         the queued messages.
>         thanks in advance
>
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