ActiveMQ paging and largemessages files are growing indefinitely

[Sayantan Ganguly]

Hi,

I am noticing an indefinite file growth for the paging and largemessages directory and they are not reprocessed. This eventually fills up the diskspace leading to server crash. The consumer is consuming some data and there is no connection issue. I have decoded the built up files using the artemis tool, below is an excerpt from that data. Then I increased Increased page-size-bytes to 40 MB from 4MB and max-size-bytes to 100 MB from 10MB and then there is no paging or largemessages file creation.

So, with the above two settings the paging has stopped. If paging is triggered in case of some backlog from consumer will that lead to not processing of any data and indefinite growth? My activemq version is 2.19.x and Wildfly is 26.3.1.

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### Prepared TX ###

### Message Counts ###
message count=0
large message count=0
message reference count
prepared message count=0
prepared large message count=0
prepared message reference count

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M E S S A G E S   J O U R N A L
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Journal path: /var/opt/OV/nmsas/traffic-leaf/data/activemq/journal
#JournalFileImpl: (activemq-data-13028.amq id = 12035, recordID = 12035) (size=10485760)
operation@AddRecord;recordID=8589945806;userRecordType=30;isUpdate=false;compactCount=99;LargeMessage(messageID=8589945806;userMessageID=23e14821-8cae-11f0-b2cb-02013e0d3e1d;msg=LargeServerMessage[messageID=8589945806,durable=true,userID=23e14821-8cae-11f0-b2cb-02013e0d3e1d,priority=4, timestamp=Mon Sep 08 12:20:00 UTC 2025,expiration=0, durable=true, address=jms.topic.bridge.up.out, properties=TypedProperties[__AMQ_CID=31764e60-8c7e-11f0-b2cb-02013e0d3e1d, ContentEncoding=gzip, _AMQ_ROUTING_TYPE=0, _AMQ_LARGE_SIZE=517765, Destination=*, FlowRecord=FlowMsgId]]@2026371507

Sayantan