[rabbitmq-discuss] auto_delete queues not going away

Thu Nov 5 21:57:47 GMT 2009

Hello,

I'm having some difficulty with queues not going away even after their
last consumer has gone.  The orphaned queues stick around and fill up
with messages until the RabbitMQ server has to be restarted or the
queues manually deleted.

For example, `rabbitmqctl name messages consumers` shows lots of entries
like:

 notify.a388d3c7-c501-4fef-92bb-516710950f4a	7198	0

(With the 'messages' column quickly growing in size...)

These queues were created with durable=True, exclusive=True, and
auto_delete=True.  It had been my understanding that the last option
bit, auto_delete, would ensure that the queue would be deleted once
there were no more consumers, but that doesn't appear to actually be the
case.

Help?

Thanks,
Tim
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