[rabbitmq-discuss] Ready, Unacked and Total messages of Queues

Tue Apr 15 10:23:37 BST 2014

On 15/04/14 10:00, Michael Klishin wrote:
> On 15 April 2014 at 12:53:15, Juno Chan (juno at algorithmictradinggroup.com) wrote:
>> However, after I added the Channel.BasicQos(0, 1, false), with
>> x-message-ttl to a higher value(e.g. 1min), when I set a breakpoint,
>> the queue was having a relatively low unack, but the ready # messages
>> are going up quite high, may I know is that the normal behaviour
>> as well?
>
> It just means that your consumer(s) cannot keep up with publisher(s).
> Add more consumers or throttle publishers.

...or increase your prefetch count.

Matthias.