[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ Issues -> Losing confidence in it.

Wed Aug 3 11:15:43 BST 2011

I am running RabbitMQ 2.20 on Debian Lenny (2.6.26).
There was no changes in the code using RabbitMQ, only the usage rate
increased by 20%.

-Abhishek Kona

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Allan Kamau <kamauallan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Abhishek K <abhishek.kona at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > We have been running a single RabbitMQ instance for 6 months now
> (RabbitMQ
> > 2.2).
> > Off late we observed RabbitMQ was consuming 11G of Memory when the entire
> > queue-size was about 7MB.
> > We decided to do a restart of RabbitMQ (thinking this was a memory leak).
> > On doing a restart of the APP we kept getting restart TIME-OUT without
> any
> > messages in the startup_{err,log).
> > We kept on retrying the restart and after 10minutes RabbitMQ restarted on
> > its own, without any message or log of what went wrong.
> > What was an expected down time of <1min ended up being a down time of 10
> > min.
> > Also it forced our team to frantically set up RabbittMQ on a new machine
> > with all the queues and Exchanges (the original Rabbit came back up in
> the
> > meanwhile).
> > We are trying to analyze why this happened to us. Specifically answer the
> > following questions
> >
> > Why was rabbitmq consuming high amounts of memory? Was it a memory leak?
> Is
> > the memory leak fixed in the later version.
> > Why did rabbitMQ not restart immediately? Why was no message present in
> the
> > log.
> > In situations like these how do we start a new rabbitmq instance
> > automatically with all the queues and preferably data.
> > How do we upgrade to latest Rabbit without any data loss?
> >
> > Any opinions and thoughts on this are welcome.
> > -Abhishek Kona
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>
> You may want to include specify the OS and version you are running and
> perhaps detail changes you may have made recently that may shed some
> light to the cause of behaviour you are observing.
>
> Allan.
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