yesnid wrote: > > Maybe I am looking at this incorrectly, but this seems broken to me, why > do messages need to have a TTL to be evicted, I should think that eviction > is seperate from expiration, and two what do you mean that I need activity > on a queue in order to get messages evicted? That sounds like I do have to > have a consumer. >
Here is my understanding from samples I've created. Whether this is correct is a mystery, the documentation is vague with regards to eviction. For queues, messageEvictionStrategy only works to remove expired messages from the queue. If your queue fills up, the producers are told to wait until there is more space for new messages. In this case, eviction and expiration are tied together. For topics, messageEvictionStrategy works to remove messages that a slow consumer cannot process. There are other settings related to this that determine how many messages to keep, see pendingMessageLimitStrategy. Today, I found a http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Message-selectors-%2B-MDB-p19744296.html post by James Strachan in which he states, James.Strachan wrote: > > Though eviction is only really for topics, not queues > As I said, it's vague... Is it "only really for topics", or will it not work with queues at all? Also, looking back at the http://activemq.apache.org/slow-consumer-handling.html Slow Consumer Handling , I now see that all of the examples are with topics, not with queues. However, it doesn't specify that the settings described are only for topics. At any rate, the eviction stuff appeared to work on my test cases. I suppose I could try it without and see if that setting is useless when applied to queues. Why do you need a consumer? My guess is that ActiveMQ isn't going to repeatedly scan the entire queue looking for expired messages, it has better things to do. If no one is asking for messages, it would rather spend time focusing on live producers and consumers. Why would you want or need a queue with no consumers? Again, I hope that helps. ----- Freelance Application Development Consultant LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnbekasjr http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnbekasjr -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Queue-PolicyEntry-Eviction-Not-working-tp23026416p23046544.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
