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Asked: 2026-06-18T06:24:56+00:00

I have two questions about RabbitMQ Work Queues: As I understand it from the

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I have two questions about RabbitMQ Work Queues:

  1. As I understand it from the RabbitMQ tutorials, it seems that if I have a basic queue consumer client (just a basic “Hello, World!” consumer) and then I add a second consumer client for the same queue, then RabbitMQ will automatically dispatch the messages between those two queues in a round robin manner. Is that true (without adding in any extra configuration)?

  2. My consumer clients are configured to only ever receive one message at a time, using (GetResponse response = channel.basicGet("my_queue", false). Since I am only ever receiving one message at a time, is it still necessary to set a prefetchCount (channel.basicQos(1)) for fair dispatch?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Answers to your questions:

    1. Yes
    2. No

    However, your two questions 1 and 2 are not compatible. If you are using a consumer, it is designed to have messages pushed to it, and you don’t use Basic.Get. When you use a consumer, you will need to use Basic.QoS to specify that the consumer can only “own” one unacknowledged message at a time. RabbitMQ will not push additional messages beyond the QoS limit.

    Your alternative is to “pull” from the queue using Basic.Get, and you will control your own destiny as far as how many messages you run at a time.

    Does this make sense?

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