[rabbitmq-discuss] Queue has inaccessible messages?

Sat Oct 2 21:07:09 BST 2010

On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 12:19:04PM -0700, David King wrote:
> > Are you sure the connection on the broker is being closed after you kill your consumers? I have a similar problem and sometimes have to manually close the connection on the broker in order to get messages delivered to the consumer. 
> 
> I'm sure that I'm killing both of the only the consumers themselves with 'kill -9', so unless rabbit keeps the consumer open with the remote process entirely dead, yeah, the broker is being closed.
> 
> If it makes a difference, this queue is being consumed with basic.get, not basic.consume

So with the consumers killed off, rabbitmqctl list_connections and
rabbitmqctl list_consumers show no entries?

Matthew