A rotary pump, including: a housing featuring a delivery space which includes an inlet for a fluid on a suction side of the rotary pump and an outlet for the fluid on a pressure side of the rotary pump; an inner rotor which is arranged in the delivery space; an outer rotor which is arranged in the delivery space and forms delivery cells with the inner rotor, wherein an outer circumferential wall of the outer rotor is mounted in a sliding manner on an inner circumferential wall of the delivery space, wherein the inner circumferential wall of the delivery space and/or the outer circumferential wall of the outer rotor comprises at least one pocket.