Re: overhead of delayed messages? what data structure does it use? would 1M kill it?

[Christian Posta <ch...@gmail.com>]

Could you use a throttling EIP?
http://camel.apache.org/throttler.html

Delayed messages are handled by ActiveMQ scheduling plugin:
http://activemq.apache.org/delay-and-schedule-message-delivery.html


On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Kevin Burton <bu...@spinn3r.com> wrote:

> What data structure does ActiveMQ use for delayed messages.
>
> I think this is exactly what I need, but it could be easy for us to
> accidentally enqueue 1M delayed messages.
>
> and if our throughput falls of in that situation then the total overall
> system throughput will fail.
>
> One idea is to have a whole separate queue for items that are delayed.
>  This way items that can be schedule right away, don't have to be inserted
> into a queue with 1M items.
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