Yeah. I don't see any way to make it read stuff from only disk.  I think the 
normal use case is to have consumers constantly draining the job queues.  

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On Friday, August 24, 2012 at 1:09 PM, David Leimbach wrote:

> I don't need it to be in RAM if it's on disk, and RAM is precious on these 
> nodes.  
> 
> It doesn't appear to be the correct resource utilization for my purposes.
> 
> On Friday, August 24, 2012 10:03:37 AM UTC-7, chadkouse wrote:
> > Is there a specific reason you don't want it to put stuff in RAM?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Chad Kouse
> > 
> > 
> > On Friday, August 24, 2012 at 1:02 PM, David Leimbach wrote:
> > 
> > > Thanks, however, I was hoping that with "-b" that beanstalk would not 
> > > still keep all the on-disk contents in RAM.  
> > > 
> > > Even with durability on, writing 100,000 512 byte jobs to beanstalk is 
> > > consuming 109MB of RAM.  I was laboring under what appears to be a bad 
> > > assumption that beanstalk would not keep every job in RAM when I'm using 
> > > durable queues.
> > > 
> > > Dave
> > > 
> > > On Friday, August 24, 2012 9:10:41 AM UTC-7, chadkouse wrote:
> > > > Use the -b flag when starting beanstalkd.  
> > > > Example:
> > > > beanstalkd -b /var/spool/beanstalkd
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > Chad Kouse
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On Friday, August 24, 2012 at 12:04 PM, David Leimbach wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > ... and is there a way to prevent it from doing so?
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'm thinking about trying to use beanstalk in a situation where I'd 
> > > > > like actually queue up some "event traffic" for eventual delivery to 
> > > > > another system.  
> > > > > 
> > > > > After inserting 100,000 512 byte records, I'm seeing the resident 
> > > > > memory size of beanstalkd go up to about 105MB on a 64bit platform.  
> > > > > 
> > > > > I've got durable logging on so I can kill and restart the server and 
> > > > > it quickly gets back up to about 105MB fairly fast.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'm actually more interested in the durability aspect of events 
> > > > > rather than speed of retrieval and delivery.  I really want a 
> > > > > persistent queue I guess.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Dave 
> > > > > 
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