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	).</p><p>To reduce the number of threads used for the transport - take a look at using the NIO transport - see <a shape="rect" href="configuring-transports.html">Configuring Transports</a></p><p>Here is an <a shape="rect" class="external-link" href="http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/activemq/trunk/assembly/src/sample-conf/activemq-scalability.xml">example</a> of this in use in one of the provided sample broker configuration files.</p><h2 id="HowdoIconfigure10sof1000sofQueuesinasinglebroker?-ReducingMemoryConsumption">Reducing Memory Consumption</h2><p>Reduce the memory used per thread - see <a shape="rect" href="javalangoutofmemory.html">reducing memory consumption</a></p><h2 id="HowdoIconfigure10sof1000sofQueuesinasinglebroker?-Reducenumberoffiledescriptors">Reduce number of file descriptors</h2><p>ActiveMQ uses the amqPersistenceAdapter by default for persistent messages. Unfortunately, this persistence adapter (as well as the kahaPersistenceAdapter) opens a file descriptor for each queue. When creating large numbers of queues, you'll quickly run into the limit for your OS.</p><p>You can either choose another <a shape="rect" href="persistence.html">persistence option</a></p><p>or - try out the new <a shape="rect" href="kahadb.html">KahaDB</a> in version 5.3 and higher</p><h2 id="HowdoIconfigure10sof1000sofQueuesinasinglebroker?-Increasethelimitonfiledescriptorsperprocess">Increase the limit on file descriptors per process</h2><p>Try <a shape="rect" class="external-link" href="http://tinyurl.com/o9qs2f" rel="nofollow">googling for the OS you are using</a></p></div>
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