On 3/7/07, Suchitha Koneru (sukoneru) <sukoneru@cisco.com> wrote:
> Hi active mq users ,
>                    I have a question in regard to persistent delivery
> for durable subscriptions.
> Consider the scenario , where in , The subscriber is durable.
> For the topic publisher  , If I set the delivery mode to persistent ,
> are the messages saved to disk all the time.

Yes - if there is a durable subscriber for the messages.

> Are these messages not
> purged at all ?

Periodically yes, when they have been consumed by all interested subscribers


> Also along with persistent mode of delivery , if I set time to live as 5
> minutes , are the messages still on the disk even after 5 minutes.

They could be - it depends on the background cleanup operation.
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James
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