They are for management messages. They only exist in memory, never in the file system.
> -----Original Message----- > From: rammohan ganapavarapu [mailto:rammohanga...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 3:03 PM > To: users <users@qpid.apache.org> > Subject: Re: Messages in qpid.management exchange > > Thank you Steve, do you know what are those exchanges for? when it say > drop those messages are still in file system so will file system grows as > those > msg count grow? > > On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Steve Huston <shus...@riverace.com> > wrote: > > > The message counts you see for qpid.management are "drops" - they were > > not routed to a queue (no topic matches on any of its bindings). They > > are not held in memory. Exchanges route messages, they do not queue > them. > > > > So there's no resource issue with those numbers. > > > > -Steve Huston > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: rammohan ganapavarapu [mailto:rammohanga...@gmail.com] > > > Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 2:56 PM > > > To: users <users@qpid.apache.org> > > > Subject: Re: Messages in qpid.management exchange > > > > > > One more thing to add, does it impact qpid performance? > > > > > > Ram > > > > > > On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 11:41 AM, rammohan ganapavarapu < > > > rammohanga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Do you know what are these messages in these exchanges and why > > > > they didn't get consumed and will it cause any issue if those msg > > > > number grow if so how to resolve that issue? restarting qpidd may > > > > clear those messages but wanted to know if we can configure to set > > > > threshold and > > > clear them automatically. > > > > > > > > > > > > qpid-stat -e > > > > > > > > Exchanges > > > > exchange type dur bind msgIn msgOut msgDrop > > > > byteIn byteOut byteDrop > > > > qmf.default.direct direct 2 28.9m 28.9m 0 > > > > 272g 272g 0 > > > > amq.topic topic Y 0 0 0 0 > > > > 0 0 0 > > > > qpid.management topic 6 75.6m 0 75.6m > > > > 144g 0 144g > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ram > > > > > >
