Try setting small prefetch size (1 or so) so that broker doesn't try to send a lot of messages from the queue to the consumer in advance. That might help a bit
http://activemq.apache.org/what-is-the-prefetch-limit-for.html Regards -- Dejan Bosanac - http://twitter.com/dejanb ----------------- The experts in open source integration and messaging - http://fusesource.com ActiveMQ in Action - http://www.manning.com/snyder/ Blog - http://www.nighttale.net Connect at CamelOne <http://camelone.com/> May 24-26 The Open Source Integration Conference On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 8:55 AM, kapitalx <a...@pagerduty.com> wrote: > I have 1 broker, 1 consumer, many queues. the queues are arbitrary such as > ACCOUNT_ID.1 ACCOUNT_ID.2 etc. I'm trying to avoid 1 account flooding its > queue and starving the other accounts. > > If the queues look like this (items in array are the messages) > > ACCOUNT_ID.1 = [ 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d ] > ACCOUNT_ID.2 = [ 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d ] > ACCOUNT_ID.3 = [ 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d ] > > I want the consumer to receive messages in a fair order such as = 1a, 2a, > 3a, 1b, 2b, 3b, ... > > roundRobinDispatchPolicy does not achieve this, it seems to be designed to > alternate messages between multiple consumers, but the single consume will > just receive = 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 2a, 2b ... > > How would I do this? > > Thanks. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/Queue-Message-Fairness-as-oppose-to-Client-Fairness-tp3423122p3423122.html > Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
