No. They get expired the next time someone asks for a message from that queue. So if you have a lot of messages which expired, the client is going to be waiting for some time to get its first message while the expired ones are taken out of the queue.
-----Original Message----- From: agujral [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 12:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Expiry of messages in activemq Hi All, I want to understand how activemq handles expiry of messages, is there a seperate thread which checks asynchronously if message has expired. thanks Anurag -- View this message in context: http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/Expiry-of-messages-in-activemq-tp3 581641p3581641.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
