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Posted to users@activemq.apache.org by schow <sc...@alarmpoint.com> on 2010/11/06 00:55:30 UTC

Re: Expired messages are not being removed from queues


Elliot Barlas wrote:
> 
> Hey Michael, it turns out that the activemq broker actually does not
> proactively purge expired messages from queues.  The broker will not send
> expired messages to consumers, but if there are no consumers consuming
> from the queue, expired messages just sit.  
> 

FYI we discovered this issue as well and filed a ticket:

https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/AMQ-2552

No fix has yet been provided.  We worked around the problem by increasing
the window for expired messages as described in the AMQ-2552 comments.

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