[rabbitmq-discuss] Server-Side Limit for a Channel's Unacknowledged Messages

Sat Jan 12 20:28:57 GMT 2013

If you're asking me, then I think the answer might be the ability to set a
limit on the number of un-acked messages per channel, and then the ability
to limit the number of channels per user/vhost.

Perhaps the new Policy framework in RabbitMQ 3.0+ would provide an
interesting way to configure this behavior.

I think that part of the problem is that most of the examples in the
ClientAPI documentation don't touch on this issue, so a naive user, who
copies and pastes an example, might find themselves with an enormous
pre-fetch queue and never even know it. But, even if my users were more
conscientious about setting this variable, I think there's still a
compelling argument to be made that a broker-administrator should be able
to limit it.

Thanks for taking the time to explain the complexity!

-D

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Matthias Radestock
<matthias at rabbitmq.com>wrote:

> Dave,
>
> On 10/01/13 13:54, Dave Seltzer wrote:
>
>> I was wondering if there's a way to set a policy on the broker that
>> would effectively limit the size of the pre-fetch queue for clients?
>>
>
> It is not uncommon for for novice users (and some clients) to forget to
> ack messages, or accidentally buffer vast quantities of messages in the
> client.
>
> We did consider setting basic.qos{prefetch_count=1} as a default, i.e. all
> channels would be limited like that unless the app issues a basic.qos of
> its own.
>
> Unfortunately that a) could break existing apps, and b) significantly
> reduces throughput.
>
> As you say, one option would be to make this server configurable. Since we
> try to keep the number of config settings small, this is really a last
> resort. Still, it might be worth exploring...
>
> At what granularity should a prefetch count be configurable?
>
> a) server
> b) user
> c) vhost
> d) user & vhost
> e) peer ip
> f) ...
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Matthias
>

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Dave Seltzer <dseltzer at tveyes.com>
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