[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ consumer stops receiving messages

[Matthias Radestock]

Maxime,

On 19/07/11 09:46, Maxime Bouroumeau-Fuseau wrote:
> I have a serious problem with RabbitMQ. After a certain amount of
> messages received, the consumers simply stop receiving messages.
> They are still connected but they are not receiving messages anymore.
> [...]
> I have tried consuming messages without ack or with ack and a qos
> prefetch count of 100 (as indicated in several responses to this kind of
> problems).
> When I do "rabbitmqctl list_queues name messages_ready
> messages_unacknowledged", I have a lot of ready messages and the
> "prefetch count" (100) value of unacknoledged messages when using ack.

That indicates that, for whatever reason, the client is not accepting 
any more messages.

What version of the RabbitMQ server are you running? If it's >= 2.5.0, 
please run 'rabbitmqctl report > server_report.txt' and send us the 
output. Preferably when it's stuck while consuming messages without 
acks, since that scenario has the fewest places to get stuck. If your 
server version is < 2.5.0 then please upgrade.

Regards,

Matthias.