Elliot Barlas wrote: > > Hey Michael, it turns out that the activemq broker actually does not > proactively purge expired messages from queues. The broker will not send > expired messages to consumers, but if there are no consumers consuming > from the queue, expired messages just sit. >
FYI we discovered this issue as well and filed a ticket: https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/AMQ-2552 No fix has yet been provided. We worked around the problem by increasing the window for expired messages as described in the AMQ-2552 comments. -- View this message in context: http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/Expired-messages-are-not-being-removed-from-queues-tp2364074p3029567.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.