Mixing Slow and Fast Consumers on a topic.

[pchandler]

My scenario in ActiveMQ 5.3:

   I have a fast producer/publisher to topic A.

   I have both Fast and Slow Consumers/Subscribers on topic A .

The behavior I am seeing is that the Producer slows down to match the speed of the slowest Consumer.

The desired  behavior (what I need help configuring) is: the Producer does not slow down and the slower Consumer(s) just drop older messages. Question: How do I configure this behavior in ActiveMQ?

Below is what I have tried so far with no luck:

On the Broker: persistent="false"

Sender: jms.useAsyncSend="true"

destinationPolicy:

                    <policyEntry topic=">" producerFlowControl="false" memoryLimit="64mb">
                        
                        <deadLetterStrategy>
                            <individualDeadLetterStrategy  topicPrefix="deadLetter"></individualDeadLetterStrategy>
                        </deadLetterStrategy>
                        
                        <!-- How to dispatch the messages -->
                        <dispatchPolicy>
                            <strictOrderDispatchPolicy></strictOrderDispatchPolicy>
                        </dispatchPolicy>
                        
                        <!-- which messages to get rid of -->
                        <messageEvictionStrategy>
                            <oldestMessageEvictionStrategy></oldestMessageEvictionStrategy>
                        </messageEvictionStrategy>

                        <!-- Keep around 2.5 times the prefetch count for each consumer -->
                        <pendingMessageLimitStrategy>
                            <prefetchRatePendingMessageLimitStrategy multiplier="2.5"></prefetchRatePendingMessageLimitStrategy>
                        </pendingMessageLimitStrategy>

                        <pendingSubscriberPolicy>
                            <fileCursor></fileCursor>
                        </pendingSubscriberPolicy>
                        
                        <!--  Keep the last 1000 messages -->
                        <subscriptionRecoveryPolicy>
                            <fixedCountSubscriptionRecoveryPolicy maximumSize="1000"></fixedCountSubscriptionRecoveryPolicy> 
                        </subscriptionRecoveryPolicy>


                    </policyEntry>

[pchandler]

OK. if I set "time to live" then I get the desired behavior "the Producer does not slow down and the slower Consumer(s) just drop older messages."

example:

            producer.setTimeToLive(1000L);

Is there a way to configure the destination/topic in activemq-broker.xml to provide the same behavior for a topic?