That section in the docs is about topic msgs. See the configuration is for topic="FOO.>" I was referring to queue msgs, which are dispatched round robin by default.
On Oct 13, 2011, at 8:37 AM, peterv wrote: > Turns out this was caused by the fact that I had set the JMSXGroupID on my > messages - and ActiveMQ was hashing them all to the same consumer. > > I have a related question though - you said > "the broker will dispatch all msgs in round robin fashion equally to all > connected consumers (assuming 6 > consumers prefetch limit is not reached)." > > But according to this > http://activemq.apache.org/dispatch-policies.html > > round-robin dispatching needs to be enabled as it is not the default. Is it > the default now in v5.X ? > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/limit-to-number-of-consumers-registered-tp3890489p3900708.html > Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.