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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}, |