[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ not responding or in hung state

[Marek Majkowski]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 13:24, pradeep w <hpk.warrier at gmail.com> wrote:
> The situation that i'm running into is like this:
> After processing some entries[random count], suddenly there is no activity
> in RabbitMQ. If i kill one of the consumer, then some activity happens and
> other queues process for some time.Then again it repeats and i kill some
> other consumer. Finally killing all the consumers.
> If i restart all consumers again things work for some time before showing
> the same inaction behavior.

Sounds like 'basic.ack' and 'basic.qos' issue.

Are you using 'basic.qos'?
Are you using acks (no_ack=False) and do you always remember to do basic_ack?

http://www.rabbitmq.com/tutorial-two-python.html

Cheers,
  Marek