Hi Robbie,

That is an excellent question. I haven't checked but I fear it will
apply the policy to the existing messages. Thanks for bringing this up.

Kind regards,
Lorenz


On Tue, 2017-06-13 at 17:19 +0100, Robbie Gemmell wrote:
> One last thought: if the queue is overfull with persistent messages
> following the reconfiguration, and the broker is restarted, what
> happens to the queue during recovery?
> 
> On 13 June 2017 at 17:18, Robbie Gemmell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > (This time, sending with actual content :P)
> > 
> > I'm reading the below as meaning that you would vote for B, rather
> > than A as you ended with. If so, I would agree.
> > 
> > I think Adel is correct that different people will have different
> > answers, but I expect the people who sent the message would find it
> > unexpected that it got dropped after successfully being sent,
> > particularly if they are aware of existing use of a reject policy and
> > that send failure would typically relate to that. That said, I also
> > expect it to be rare for people to reduce the limit on a live system
> > with messages people care about.
> > 
> > I don't think I would make it configurable, its extra complexity for
> > whats likely to be limited or no usage. If the queue remains overfull,
> > as you said the operator should be able to delete messages that might
> > have been dropped if needed. To Adel's point, the operator would need
> > to do pretty much the same the broker itself would; by making some
> > aribtrary decision such as the first or last <x> messages on the
> > queue.
> > 
> > Robbie
> > 
> > On 13 June 2017 at 10:22, Lorenz Quack <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I personally would expect behaviour B).
> > > 
> > > As an application I would expect a REJECT policy I either accept or
> > > reject a message I send.  Silently "rejecting" it retrospectively
> > > seems counter-intuitive to me.
> > > 
> > > On the other hand, behaviour A) would bring it more in line with some of
> > > the other overflow policies that immediately react to a change in the
> > > limits.
> > > That being said I would still vote for behaviour A).
> > > 
> > > Kind regards,
> > > Lorenz
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 2017-06-13 at 10:21 +0100, Lorenz Quack wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Hello all,
> > > > 
> > > > QPID-7815 [1] proposes the addition of a Queue Overflow Reject Policy
> > > > to the Qpid broker-j (aka Qpid Broker for Java) component.
> > > > 
> > > > Queue's allow to define overflow limits (in term of number of messages
> > > > and/or cumulative size of the messages).  If the limit is breached the
> > > > overflow policy determines the behaviour.  There are three ways the
> > > > limits can be breached.
> > > > 
> > > >   1) A new message arrives at the queue pushing it over the limit.
> > > > 
> > > >   2) An operator lowers the limit so that existing messages are in
> > > >      breach of the limit.
> > > > 
> > > >   3) An operator changes the policy.  For example from a No-op policy
> > > >      to the reject policy under discussion.
> > > > 
> > > > The behaviour of the proposed policy in case 1) is fairly straight
> > > > forward and I think uncontroversial.  This discussion thread is to
> > > > hash out the expected behaviour in case of operator intervention,
> > > > i.e. case 2) and 3).
> > > > 
> > > > I see two possible behaviours:
> > > > 
> > > >   A) The policy silently deletes messages that are in breach of the
> > > >      policy.
> > > > 
> > > >   B) The policy ignores messages that are already on the queue and
> > > >      only applies to messages that newly arrive.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > What would people expect the behaviour to be?
> > > > Please discuss.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Kind regards,
> > > > Lorenz
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/QPID-7815
> > > > 
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