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Diffstat (limited to 'src/rabbit_variable_queue.erl')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/src/rabbit_variable_queue.erl b/src/rabbit_variable_queue.erl index 8b36767c..11e55353 100644 --- a/src/rabbit_variable_queue.erl +++ b/src/rabbit_variable_queue.erl @@ -89,12 +89,14 @@ %% %% The duration indicated to us by the memory_monitor is used to %% calculate, given our current ingress and egress rates, how many -%% messages we should hold in RAM. When we need to push alphas to -%% betas or betas to gammas, we favour writing out messages that are -%% further from the head of the queue. This minimises writes to disk, -%% as the messages closer to the tail of the queue stay in the queue -%% for longer, thus do not need to be replaced as quickly by sending -%% other messages to disk. +%% messages we should hold in RAM. We track the ingress and egress +%% rates for both messages and pending acks and rates for both are +%% included when calculating the number of messages to hold in +%% RAM. When we need to push alphas to betas or betas to gammas, we +%% favour writing out messages that are further from the head of the +%% queue. This minimises writes to disk, as the messages closer to the +%% tail of the queue stay in the queue for longer, thus do not need to +%% be replaced as quickly by sending other messages to disk. %% %% Whilst messages are pushed to disk and forgotten from RAM as soon %% as requested by a new setting of the queue RAM duration, the |