[rabbitmq-discuss] Queue has inaccessible messages?

[Matthias Radestock]

David,

David King wrote:
> I have a moderate-traffic queue on rabbit 1.8.1

You should upgrade.

> that for some reason doesn't ever get smaller than 1.3k (as reported
> by rabbitmqctl list_queues).  http://i.imgur.com/m6Zva.png
> 
>> ri at queue01:~$ rabbitmqctl list_queues name messages_ready 
>> messages_unacknowledged messages memory | grep indextank_changes 
>> indextank_changes       10      1342    1352    91015008

According to that 1342 messages have been sent to the consumer but have 
not been acknowledged. Is your app ack'ing the messages?


Regards,

Matthias.