Hi Thanks for the suggestion of using topicPrefetch.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have any effect, I still get a large queue building up in the broker. I also getting the following message: "Producers will be throttled to the rate at which messages are removed from this destination" Instead of throttling the producer, I want the broker to discard messages in the queue so that only the last message on each topic is retained. I'm sure this is just me not understanding how to configure activemq properly... So any further suggestions much appreciated...! Thanks again, Ben From: gtully [via ActiveMQ] [mailto:ml-node+s2283324n4660887...@n4.nabble.com] Sent: 19 December 2012 11:53 To: benj Subject: Re: ActiveMQ slow consumer policy > configure a lower prefetch value for your topic consumers b/c the > discarding only takes place once the prefetch limit has been reached and > the default value is quite high. > > so something like <policyEntry topic=">" topicPrefetch=100 ...> -- View this message in context: http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/ActiveMQ-slow-consumer-policy-tp4660859p4660888.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.