rabbitmq memory usage

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Sergey Kraev

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Feb 25, 2014, 8:38:13 AM2/25/14
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Hi, all!

I am stress testing RabbitMQ.

I have 10 persistent queues without consumers which I start to fill from topic exchange with 100 bytes long messages at the fastest rate possible. One hour and 100 million messages later erlang process is using all available RAM (3 GB) and message publishing rate at each queue drops from 3000 messages per second to zero.

I’d like to know if this behavior is expected and for given configuration the queue backlog limit is 100 million messages.

Thanks!

Alvaro Videla

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Feb 25, 2014, 10:43:37 AM2/25/14
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Hi,

Have you seen http://www.rabbitmq.com/memory.html ?

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Alvaro
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Feb 25, 2014, 1:41:34 PM2/25/14
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Thanks for the link!

So the publishing rate drops to zero, because Erlang RAM usage goes over the limit of vm_memory_high_watermark (in my case, 3GB).

Then my question is: is it normal that 100 million persisted messages use 3 GB of memory? Shouldn't broker page them to disk and free memory? After I hit the limit I waited for an hour, and memory usage didn't go down and connections remained blocked.

Regards,
Sergey



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Feb 26, 2014, 2:45:15 AM2/26/14
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This is memory usage breakdown:

{memory,
[{total,3485934240},
{connection_procs,34710096},
{queue_procs,138552056},
{plugins,436080},
{other_proc,19191352},
{mnesia,107120},
{mgmt_db,598560},
{msg_index,2829261600},
{other_ets,425229944},
{binary,12478704},
{code,19777382},
{atom,703377},
{other_system,4887969}]},



On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Alvaro Videla <videl...@gmail.com> wrote:
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