Maximizing throughput with RabbitMQ

The following are the configuration options for optimal performance in relation to maximum message passing throughput:

• Keep your queues short
• Avoid the use of lazy queues
• Avoid persistent messages
• Create multiple queues and consumers
• Divide queues into different cores
• Disable acknowledgment
• Disable unnecessary plugins

Performance and scalability with RabbitMQ

There are many important points that we should consider for achieving optimal performance with RabbitMQ:

• Payload message size
• Exchange management
• Configure prefetch properly
• RabbitMQ HiPE
• Clustering of nodes
• Disable RabbitMQ statistics
• Update the RabbitMQ libraries