If you want to deal with bursts of fast producers and if it takes a
long time to process messages on the queue then you either need to
allocate lots of RAM for the non-durable queues to be able to use -
otherwise the non-durable queues will run out of RAM - or a better
option is just to use durable queues which can deal with huge queues
(millions of messages on the queue) without any issue.

If you have a problem with the performance of producers on a durable
queue - and you kinda want the semantics of non-durable queues - just
enable asynchronous sending which means your producers will be about
the same high performance as non-durable queues - but you will be able
to deal with very fast producers and slow consumers very nicely.

http://incubator.apache.org/activemq/async-sends.html

On 5/29/06, Kim Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

We have been having some major issue with activemq (both 3.2 and 4.0
versions) in our production environment. We have consumers which can take
between approx 5-120 secs to process a message. When the queue is reasonably
empty, the messages are consumed in at a good rate.

The messages are produced quicker than they can be consumed, and the quick
fills over a couple of hours.

When we configured activemq to be non-persistent, the queue fills and the
producers are blocked. I assume this is the default strategy of the
non-persistent in-memory queue.

However, the consumers also seem to stop consuming messages. The end result
is there are no more messages being consumed.  The load on the servers is
less than 1% and there is plenty of free cpu, memory and disk space.

I would love to hear from anyone who has had experience with activemq in a
production environment to do with configuring activemq.

We are getting quite desperate, and have starting developing a solution in
xmpp (jabber) as a work-around.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kim

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Mooter Media
Sydney, Australia
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