[rabbitmq-discuss] |Spam| |Spam| broker going down, how to troubleshoot?

Fri Nov 5 19:28:16 GMT 2010

Shane,

Shane Witbeck wrote:
> The rabbit-sasl.log is 5MB but the last entry was from Oct 28. 

Right. So clearly something went wrong before that date since the sasl 
log should normally be empty.

> Yesterday the broker went down at ~2pm, so not the same time every day.
> The rabbit started via "rabbitmq-server start -detached"

That's a strange way to start rabbit. Where did you get that from? How 
did you install rabbit? We generally recommend that people install 
rabbit from the package for their o/s and start/stop it using the 
appropriate system commands. On SuSe that should be s.t. like

/sbin/service rabbitmq-server start

(according to http://www.rabbitmq.com/install.html#rpm - I am not a SuSe 
expert)

Though that doesn't quite explain why rabbit would die. Is there 
anything noteworthy in the system logs? Perhaps rabbit is being nuked by 
the infamous OOM Killer.

Matthias.
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