Hi,
We have a case where a consumer connected through a slow connection would
slow down the fast consumer. I have already
http://activemq.apache.org/slow-consumers.html and
http://activemq.apache.org/slow-consumer-handling.html However, there are
specific advises do not seem applicable to our scenario.
Out set up looks like:
The server
Constantly broadcasting non-persistent messages over a topic (a)
Listen on a number of persistent and non-persistent queues to process
messages asynchronously (Listener) (b)
Reply to the temporary queue of the request (c)
The client
Listen to the broadcast messages in background (d)
Make request to the queues (e)
Wait for reply (f)
When the clients are on fast connection, everything is fine. However, once a
slow connecting client joins, we observe:
1) (e) and (f) of the fast client become extremely sluggish instantly.
2) Timestamp logging of (b) and (c) shows that the server still takes very
little time to process each request, ruling out problems such as DB
bottleneck. On the other hand, the messaging waiting time (time at the entry
of the listner - msg.getJMStimestamp()) increases by 50-100X
3) Either killing the slow connecting client or stop broadcasting message
will have things return to normal
The strange thing is that, according to
http://activemq.apache.org/slow-consumers.html, ``A slow consumer is not
really an issue with queues.'' And that the problem occurs almost instantly
after the slow connection is established, it seems too short for any memory
usage built-up; and indeed no such problem is observed. We also try twisting
ActiveMQ broker and consumer settings like prefetchsize=2000, dedicated task
runner = true/false, increase memoryLimit/memoryUsage,
optimizedDispatch=true. None seems to solve the problem.
What would be the causes and solutions for these scenario?
(The ActiveMQ site's suggestions of discarding old messages would create
stale data problems for our application.)
Thanks a lot!
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