[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ broker's death by one cut: robustness problem

[Matthias Radestock]

Lev,

Lev Walkin wrote:
> During evaluation period, our RabbitMQ node has crashed at some point, 
> killed by OOM killer. Unfortunately, killing corrupted the log files, so 
> RabbitMQ restart did not fix the problem. RabbitMQ just would not start:
> [...]
> It turns out, the broker beam was killed during a persister operation, 
> so persister logs were broken:
> 
> [broker at zamq ...]> ls -al | grep persister
> -rw-r--r--  1 broker  wheel          8 Apr 24 18:48 rabbit_persister.LOG
> -rw-r--r--  1 broker  wheel  661677171 Apr 24 18:19 
> rabbit_persister.LOG.previous
> [...]
> I believe there is a way to make such error recovery more robust. Is 
> there a solution you'd like to introduce for this kind of problem?

You should be able to just rename the .LOG.previous to .LOG.

I have filed a bug to get the broker to do s.t. along these lines 
automatically.


Regards,

Matthias.