the example in the link you pasted answers your question: <policyEntry queue=">" gcInactiveDestinations="true" inactiveTimoutBeforeGC="30000"/>
It's the "inactiveTimeoutBeforeGc" attribute, which is the time in millis that a destination has 0 messages waiting to be consumed. On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:21 PM, kureckam <mkure...@fractech.net> wrote: > The link http://activemq.apache.org/delete-inactive-destinations.htmltalks > about deleting destinations that are inactive for a period of time. At what > point does it become inactive? > > -- > View this message in context: > http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/Inactive-queue-tp3913110p3913110.html > Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >