Re: How many queues can beanstalkd handle?

[Keith Rarick]

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Ben. <googl...@niessen.ch> wrote:
> Each lamp gets its own queue => 10.000 lamps
> Do you have other ideas how to handle it?

You've described two ways to handle N lamps:
- 1 tube (containing all N lamps)
- N tubes (with 1 lamp per tube)

You can also do something in between these
two extremes: make 2 tubes, and put half of
the lamps into one and the other half into the
other. More generally:
- K tubes (with N/K lamps per tube)

> Can Beanstalkd handle 10.000 queues at the same time? What is the
> limitation, RAM?

Yes, RAM.

Beanstalkd has no arbitrary limit on the number
of tubes you can make, though it hasn't been
optimized specifically to handle many tubes at
a time. You should try it and see. (10000 isn't
very many tubes.)

[Ben.]

Thank you for your reply.

This helps me a lot.

Regards

Ben