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authorMichael Klishin <michael@novemberain.com>2017-07-28 21:37:42 +0300
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-07-28 21:37:42 +0300
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diff --git a/docs/rabbitmq.conf.example b/docs/rabbitmq.conf.example
index e4c2fff92a..68ce59326e 100644
--- a/docs/rabbitmq.conf.example
+++ b/docs/rabbitmq.conf.example
@@ -252,8 +252,18 @@
## Fraction of the high watermark limit at which queues start to
## page message out to disc in order to free up memory.
+## For example, when vm_memory_high_watermark is set to 0.4 and this value is set to 0.5,
+## paging can begin as early as when 20% of total available RAM is used by the node.
##
-## Values greater than 0.9 can be dangerous and should be used carefully.
+## Values greater than 1.0 can be dangerous and should be used carefully.
+##
+## One alternative to this is to use durable queues and publish messages
+## as persistent (delivery mode = 2). With this combination queues will
+## move messages to disk much more rapidly.
+##
+## Another alternative is to configure queues to page all messages (both
+## persistent and transient) to disk as quickly
+## as possible, see http://www.rabbitmq.com/lazy-queues.html.
##
# vm_memory_high_watermark_paging_ratio = 0.5
diff --git a/docs/rabbitmq.config.example b/docs/rabbitmq.config.example
index 4135c5053c..b7f08afc78 100644
--- a/docs/rabbitmq.config.example
+++ b/docs/rabbitmq.config.example
@@ -236,8 +236,18 @@
%% Fraction of the high watermark limit at which queues start to
%% page message out to disc in order to free up memory.
+ %% For example, when vm_memory_high_watermark is set to 0.4 and this value is set to 0.5,
+ %% paging can begin as early as when 20% of total available RAM is used by the node.
%%
- %% Values greater than 0.9 can be dangerous and should be used carefully.
+ %% Values greater than 1.0 can be dangerous and should be used carefully.
+ %%
+ %% One alternative to this is to use durable queues and publish messages
+ %% as persistent (delivery mode = 2). With this combination queues will
+ %% move messages to disk much more rapidly.
+ %%
+ %% Another alternative is to configure queues to page all messages (both
+ %% persistent and transient) to disk as quickly
+ %% as possible, see http://www.rabbitmq.com/lazy-queues.html.
%%
%% {vm_memory_high_watermark_paging_ratio, 0.5},