ask/kombu — Issue #96: SQS: configurable polling interval
Author: acdha
Created: 2012-01-26 22:40:11+00:00
State: open

This isn't a major priority since SQS is relatively cheap but I noticed that Kombu polls for new messages every second for every configured queue and the pidbox queue. In practice this means each of my workers is generating ~500 empty message receives per minute. $.03/hour won't break the bank but it's effectively like running an extra EC2 micro instance per worker; for people with many workers, particularly if their workload is weighted towards big, slow requests, it would be nice to increase the polling interval.