[rabbitmq-discuss] weird timeout declaring queue

Thu Jan 27 03:28:43 GMT 2011

Jerry and I spoke with Jon today, and we agreed that this is a hard area to work in. I'm sending him a few very simple, special-purpose new queue implementation of mine (rabbit_ram_queue, rabbit_mnesia_queue, and the upcoming rabbit_disk_queue) to try building on. This might be easier for the moment than building on the more complicated rabbit_variable_queue, as Jon is doing now. 

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Cheers,
John

On Jan 26, 2011, at 15:20, "Matthew Sackman" <matthew at rabbitmq.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 01:16:10PM -0600, Jon Brisbin wrote:
>> In testing the new Riak-based message persister I've been working on, I'm seeing a strange timeout happening that I'm not terribly sure how to troubleshoot.
>> 
>> When I start the broker and publish a message, everything goes through fine. I see all the functions being called like I'd expect (init, fetch, et al). When I re-run the Python script that publishes the test message, it appears to hang on the declare_queue step. I have to kill it with Ctl-C. The only function I see being called in my backing queue module is delete_and_terminate. I suspect I'm not returning something correctly but I'm not sure what that is.
> 
> I strongly suspect your delete_and_terminate function is crashing, which
> can then cause a subsequent declare of the same queue to loop forever.
> Because this is called as part of the queue's deletion/termination,
> errors in here tend not to show up in the logs. This is something of a
> problem! So, maybe very carefully debug your delete_and_terminate
> function? Construct the state directly in the erlang shell and pass it
> around? We have lots of tests (as you'll find in rabbit_tests) that
> directly construct vq states and mutilate them for testing purposes -
> I'd suggest doing the same - get your BQ state out of the queue process
> and test it in isolation.
> 
> Matthew
> 
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