[rabbitmq-discuss] OOM kill

[Michael Klishin]

On 8 Mar 2014, at 15:17, Dmitry Andrianov <dmitry.andrianov at alertme.com> wrote:

> If Rabbit does something - doesn't it make sense to do the same when memory is running low?

New connections can be consuming messages, not just publishing. It makes sense to let
consumers drain messages. Publishing connection will be blocked as soon as RabbitMQ receives a basic.publish
frame on it.

MK

Software Engineer, Pivotal/RabbitMQ