Hi Roger, I'd disregard the consumer priority feature; it does not function as described in the consumer priority page.
Here's the exclusive consumer web page. http://activemq.apache.org/exclusive-consumer.html Joe www.ttmsolutions.com Roger Hoover wrote: > > I want to implement a priority queue (message delivery ordered by > priority) > and am trying to figure out what consumer priority means. > > After looking over the documentation ( > http://activemq.apache.org/consumer-priority.html) and these email > threads, > the semantics of consumer priority are still not entirely clear to me. > http://www.nabble.com/Consumer-Priority-on-AMQ-5.0-to14369093s2354.html#a14369093 > http://www.nabble.com/Using-different-consumer-priorities-in-the-same-connection-td14722765s2354.html#a14722765 > > - Does consumer priority control the order of message delivery or does it > influence which consumer messages get sent to? > > - If it controls delivery order, what effect does setting a priority on a > consumer have? It would seem like the priority should be set per message. > > - What does Hiram mean by "exclusive consumers"? Is this different from > each message being delivered to one and one only consumer? > > - What is the weighting algorithm for priorities? > > - What is the ballpark performance penalty for priority evaluation on the > broker? > > - Does the priority value have any particular significance other than > being > greater or less than other priority levels? > - Is there a maximum priority value? > - Does priority 0 have any special meaning? > > - Does the feature exist in AMQ 4.1.1? > > - Are there any gotchas when using it with STOMP? > > I appreciate any info anyone can provide. > > Cheers, > > Roger > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Priority-queue-semantics-of-consumer-priority-tp15427022s2354p15433256.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
