[rabbitmq-discuss] How does x-max-length work in 3.1?

[Matthias Radestock]

On 01/05/13 20:35, Alvaro Videla wrote:
> So if x-max-length is 0 and there's a consumer ready to accept messages,
> the message will be delivered to that consumer or dropped?

The former. From http://www.rabbitmq.com/maxlength.html
<quote>
Queue length is a measure that takes into account ready messages, 
*ignoring unacknowledged messages*
</quote>

Matthias.