Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-qpid-users-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 79448 invoked from network); 7 Oct 2010 21:11:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 7 Oct 2010 21:11:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 46280 invoked by uid 500); 7 Oct 2010 21:11:32 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-qpid-users-archive@qpid.apache.org Received: (qmail 46208 invoked by uid 500); 7 Oct 2010 21:11:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact users-help@qpid.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: users@qpid.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list users@qpid.apache.org Delivered-To: moderator for users@qpid.apache.org Received: (qmail 45620 invoked by uid 99); 7 Oct 2010 21:10:19 -0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.2 required=10.0 tests=FREEMAIL_FROM,HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of jadamcrain@gmail.com designates 209.85.214.170 as permitted sender) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=/9lEPXgr5Py/0h1haJQee0VB8gUzWSvYQQZfCWwmKYA=; b=shJNiaMsRsueKKQdG0lJ6n0gA3+itQDZJryjGOJuEsrzoTcHmE0J1TdKJCS7+gSH/t 6/tZ9/YY/NHsy2vxRudO9llhedYEJLjE14zUv9TvoihycNTVrTk26Zj3qhLo7LXLTvqJ CfbxyZuqt889WEt1em95XBvYliJi+1kMg9TBw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=fLemuVBtDcu8yzTXfIYE++FXNyDhrWWITu6l9CIIR0zAGEsJzX7+akOhbYxl2qZMp9 ou7VkUY7VMrrs5D+lQM9h3+n3X2YWOAq3CfVGwT4MrM378bgkKZ/zCHCCL7M3ipsrTHw vpsKep8pjc0/mdw1R/gX5IvSuJQuFS/TiYt3M= MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 17:09:51 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: queue memory release From: Adam Crain To: users@qpid.apache.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0003255760f6b1138204920d504d --0003255760f6b1138204920d504d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 When a queue backs up (substantially) and then eventually is read by a subscriber, does the memory footprint get immediately released or are their sweeps for this? We've noticed Qpid consuming 100's of MB of memory even though their are no queued messages, the only explanation we can formulate is that the queue depths were high at one point and then that footprint was never released. -Adam --0003255760f6b1138204920d504d--