[rabbitmq-discuss] Excessive RabbitMQ memory consumption

Thu Nov 21 03:18:10 GMT 2013

On 21 Nov 2013, at 06:47, Matt Pietrek <mpietrek at skytap.com> wrote:

> The management database at 1.3GB seems excessive.

There were memory leak bug fixes in the management plugin in 3.1.x [1] [2].
Also, you can configure the plugin to use a lower statistics collection interval [3]
but that would simply delay the inevitable.

If you can’t upgrade in the short term, disabling the plugin may help.

1. http://www.rabbitmq.com/release-notes/README-3.1.0.txt
2. http://www.rabbitmq.com/release-notes/README-3.1.2.txt
3. http://www.rabbitmq.com/management.html#configuration

MK

Software Engineer, Pivotal/RabbitMQ