[rabbitmq-discuss] 2.7.1 mirrored queues leak a lot of memory on slave nodes

[Chip Salzenberg]

On Feb 27, 11:34 am, Chip Salzenberg <rev.c... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Simon MacMullen wrote:
> > On 23/02/12 18:37, DawgTool wrote:
> > > ps> I also recall making some config changes, but don't recall at the
> > > moment. I'll look at those later today.
>
> > That would be marvellous. Needless to say we've not been able to
> > replicate this here.

An additional note: Most messages were written by clients that did not
require acks.

>
> Our local Erlang expert is on vacation, but he rescued our cluster.
> He described a mailbox full of messages that some process was not
> consuming.  When he killed the process and, IIRC, the "shell" that had
> spawned it (I am merely parroting what I recall, this may be the wrong
> term), the bloat was cured and memory usage returned to normal.
>
> Details that might matter in reproduction:  Our troubled mirrored
> queue used mode "nodes" (not "all"), picking two nodes out of a
> cluster of four.  When I created it, I used a modified rabbitmqadmin
> that connected to one of the two nodes, and specified that it and one
> other node should mirror the queue.  All messages were written with
> delivery-mode 2.  Messages are about 46K each.  While some of the
> messages were consumed, most were purged.  Queue deletion did not cure
> the leak.
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