[rabbitmq-discuss] suspending and resuming a QueueingConsumer

Fri Jan 15 12:28:43 GMT 2010

Hi Jim,

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 01:30:13PM -0500, Jim Irrer wrote:
> Servers generally run in a loop, and in many cases spend most of
> their time (very efficiently) waiting on read.  Given such a server,
> we wish to suspend it before it processes another message.
> 
> If there are several servers reading from the same queue, and
> we want to suspend one of them, and if we used the ack-ing manually
> approach, then one message would be held by the suspended server
> and could not be processed by any of the others.  We would like that
> message to instead be processed by one of the other servers.  I suppose
> that the suspended server could write the message back to the queue,
> but that seems a little like a hack.

Ok, that makes sense. Is there a reason why you prefer suspending and
resuming rather than just stopping/killing a consumer and starting a new
one up?

>From your description, I'd have thought that closing the channel and
maybe connection too, is the way to go.

Matthew