[rabbitmq-discuss] Problems with rabbit and hoping I can get some help

[Jerry Kuch]

Hi, Dathan...

What are your consumers doing with the published messages?  If you use rabbitmqctl or 
the management plugin to look at what's going on in your queues, do you see messages
accumulating but not being delivered?  Or delivered but not ACKed?  If messages are 
building up (either undelivered or unACKed) faster than consumers are draining them,
you might be hitting memory-based flow control, which will use TCP back pressure to
stop the publishers.

See here for more information:

http://www.rabbitmq.com/memory.html

To get an idea whether this is happening to you, check out your queue contents as 
suggested above, and see if memory alarms are being set in your rabbit logs.../

Best regards,
Jerry

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dathan Pattishall" <dathan at schoolfeed.com>
To: rabbitmq-discuss at lists.rabbitmq.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:52:55 PM
Subject: [rabbitmq-discuss] Problems with rabbit and hoping I can get some	help




Let me first describe my setup. 

root at webnode1]# rabbitmqadmin.py show overview 
+--------------------+-----------------+--------------------+------------------+ 
| management_version | node | statistics_db_node | statistics_level | 
+--------------------+-----------------+--------------------+------------------+ 
| 2.7.1 | rabbit at webnode1 | rabbit at webnode1 | fine | 
+--------------------+-----------------+--------------------+------------------+ 



Rabbit MQ's producers comes from PHP 5.3.8 http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.amqp.php . Each apache process could produce a rabbit message, I am producing around 1000 messages a second on c1.xtralarge instance at ec2. 


My erlang version is 


/usr/local/bin/erl -v 
Erlang R15B (erts-5.9) [source] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [async-threads:0] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false] 




The PROBLEM: 


After about 40 mins of rabbit accepting messages all connections block causing a rather bad error on the front ends killing traffic. Turning rabbit off and restarting the web servers forces a recovery. 


Stats from Rabbit: 


Roughly 5000 queues are made 
Roughly 3600 exchanges are made 
Each exchange can have at most 1200 queues bound to it. 
Each Queue is setup for autodelete and so is the exchanges with delivery type 1. 
All data passed is JSON 


The consumer is NODE and its keeping up with the consumption 


RabbitMQ memlimit is around 5.3G 
RabbitMQ mem used hits around 1.9G when it freezes produces 
RabbitMQ proc used hits around 220K 
RabbitMQ fd_total is 50K 
RabbitMQ socks_total is around 45K and Socks used is 4K 
mem_ets hists 100M // not sure what this is 


Any idea what is going on? What limit am I hitting? Why does RabbitMQ block? How can I detect that I am about to hit a block state? Any suggestions or request of additional data would be great. 






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