Hi Dejan, Thanks for your reply. I made the change you suggested, however after 36 hours the server stopped routing messages again. This time the log contained many messages relating to increasing memory usage with
2011-11-10 20:01:51,134 | DEBUG | Main:memory: usage change from: 99% of available memory, to: 100% of available memory | org.apache.activemq.usage.Usage | ActiveMQ Transport: tcp:///10.15.81.142:46288 at the time the server stopped working. To me, this would suggest that there is an underlying problem with messages becoming stuck somewhere on each topic. The pending message limit strategy on the topics was stopping the number of messages getting too high and causing the server to run out of memory. Any ideas what to look at / change next? Many thanks, Pete -- View this message in context: http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/Confused-by-ActiveMQ-Discarding-message-on-Topics-tp4007870p4030769.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.