Hi Thanks for your reply.
I tried using the pendingMessageLimitStrategy, but I think I must be using it wrong as it seems to have no effect. I still get a large queue of pending messages on the server, while the client gets further and further behind. What I'm expecting is for the server to discard messages and for the client to see gaps in its stream, but never to fall too far behind. I'm using apache-activemq-5.7.0 with apache.nms.stomp-1.5.3 on Windows 7/2008. Here's my config: <broker persistent="false" xmlns="http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core" brokerName="localhost"> <destinationPolicy> <policyMap> <policyEntries> <policyEntry topic=">"> <subscriptionRecoveryPolicy> <lastImageSubscriptionRecoveryPolicy/> </subscriptionRecoveryPolicy> <pendingMessageLimitStrategy> <constantPendingMessageLimitStrategy limit="1"/> </pendingMessageLimitStrategy> </policyEntry> ... I'm pumping short messages through at about 2000 messages per second, spread evenly across 1000 topics. I create the client first, and then run the server at 2000 msgs/s. I can see the client receiving only about 500 messages per second (with large stutters where it receives nothing for a few seconds). It appears to receive every message in sequence, so nothing is being discarded. Meanwhile the server gets further and further ahead, until the broker hits 1GB of main memory and then slows the producer down. Do I need to do something else to get the broker to discard messages more aggressively? Thanks again, Ben -- View this message in context: http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/ActiveMQ-slow-consumer-policy-tp4660859p4660881.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.