On 8/6/07, Elber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've done some tests of consumer priority and exclusive and I found that if > I start 2 consumers on the same queue (the first with a priority = 2 and the > second =1), the first will consume all messages. > It's the same thing whit consumer.exclusive. > So what's the difference between the 2.
You can have multiple consumers with the same priority sharing messages. With exclusive consumer, you can only ever have a single consumer, period - irrespective of priorities. > I've read the doc and it explained that priority is used to avoid network > Hops, it can't be used to allow to one consumer to consume 80% of messages > and 20% for the other? No - to split message consumption across multiple consumers, the current flow control & prefetch logic deals with letting faster consumers consume more of the messages -- James ------- http://macstrac.blogspot.com/
