a few million is a few hundred persistent messages per second, so you will be at the mercy of the disk io storing the message for scheduling.
the simple answer is to ask the computer (*your* computer with a little test) my suspicion is that you will need to partition your system across brokers/machines. On 16 June 2014 23:56, Kevin Burton <bur...@spinn3r.com> wrote: > I'm planning on deploying a system which will use delayed messages > extensively… > > I'm using: > > message.setLongProperty( ScheduledMessage.AMQ_SCHEDULED_DELAY, delay ); > > In the UI they just go into a 'schedule' section not related to the queues. > > I had assumed they would be in the queues, just sitting in there and not > ready to enqueue yet. > > I would expect that there will be a LOT of these in my system. > > Like millions per hour and probably something like 250k-2M sitting there > waiting to be scheduled at any given time. > > Will this scale or am I about to shoot myself in the foot? :) > > -- > > Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com > Location: *San Francisco, CA* > Skype: *burtonator* > blog: http://burtonator.wordpress.com > … or check out my Google+ profile > <https://plus.google.com/102718274791889610666/posts> > <http://spinn3r.com> > War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Corporations are > people. -- http://redhat.com http://blog.garytully.com
