Disabling persistence and paging messages (virtual memory)

I know this has been discussed over and over again, I browsed through existing postings, but it's still not clear and it looks like it's not clear for a bunch of people. So I’ll ask through examples, hopefully we can all be clear, once for all. :) I have disabled persistence with: and commented

Queue stop

Can you stop a queue from taking new messages while it still delivers the ones that are in it? I need that in order to not lose any messages when I am bringing the queue down say for maintenance... Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Queue-stop-tp17603840s2354p1760384

queue gracefull shutdown (and more questions)

Hello there, I've been searching this forum for answers to these questions but I did not find anything suitable. So here they are. As I am still planning, I am playing with different configurations so the questions are not related as they refer to different things. I am planning to use ActiveMQ