[rabbitmq-discuss] Losing messages, why?

Tue Mar 1 10:07:45 GMT 2011

DOBRO Sergei wrote:
> There are six workers. Other clients publish messages to exchange
> "ex.direct" with the routing key which is determined randomly from
> the values of array (routing_key1, routing_key2, ...., routing_key6).
>  So, the workers receive messages randomly too. That's why I can not
> tell you which worker(s) stops receiving messages.

So how do you know that messages are getting lost?

> RabbitMQ and the workers are running on the same machine. Each
> connection's IP is 127.0.0.1. Can you give me some advice? Which
> software to use to access the data flowing across the connection
> RabbitMQ<->worker?

Try wireshark. Or insert our tracer 
http://www.rabbitmq.com/examples.html#tracer.

Matthias.