Unfortunately - when you disable persistence in the broker, it also prevents any use of storage to disk. I suggest you don't set persistence to false and make sure the messages you send are non-persistent. You should then get the behaviour you want.
On 10 Mar 2012, at 03:43, colomb wrote: > We are using an embedded broker producing non persistent messages. The > producer is quite fast and the consumers are usually able to keep up. > Sometimes, a consumer may slow down, and we would like to try ensure that > the producer isn't told to slow down if the broker fills up with messages. > \http://activemq.apache.org/message-cursors.html says the store based cursor > has an embedded file cursor. Our understanding is that the broker should > queue messages in memory until it reaches the watermark (70%) and then start > queue messages in the store or temp. Once the store has been filled, then > it should slow down the producer. Unfortunately, we aren't seeing that > behavior. The queue just fills up in memory until it reaches its limit and > it starts slowing / blocking the producer. How do we get an embedded broker > to store non-persistent messages to disk when memory fills up? Should we be > attacking this problem with a different configuration? Our broker > configuration is below. Thanks for the help > > Active MQ 5.3.1 > Java 1.6 > > broker = new BrokerService(); > broker.setPersistent( false ); > broker.addConnector( "tcp://0.0.0.0:61616" ); > > PolicyEntry policyEntry = new PolicyEntry(); > policyEntry.setQueue( ">" ); > policyEntry.setProducerFlowControl( true ); > > PolicyMap policyMap = new PolicyMap(); > policyMap.setDefaultEntry( policyEntry ); > broker.setDestinationPolicy( policyMap ); > > SystemUsage systemUsage = broker.getSystemUsage(); > systemUsage.setSendFailIfNoSpace( true ); > systemUsage.getMemoryUsage().setLimit( 1024 * BYTES_IN_MEG ); > systemUsage.getStoreUsage().setLimit( 1024 * BYTES_IN_MEG ); > systemUsage.getTempStorage().setLimit( 1024 * BYTES_IN_MEG ); > > -- > View this message in context: > http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/Embedded-broker-non-persistent-messages-and-store-based-cursor-tp4461429p4461429.html > Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.