[rabbitmq-discuss] Autodelete queues not being deleted

Tue Mar 20 14:23:42 GMT 2012

I frequently notice that queues which were created with autodelete are not 
actually deleted once there are no more consumers. This is an issue because 
they continue to receive messages when they should instead be deleted. Am I 
misunderstanding the effect that the autodelete flag has on queues? Is 
there another explanation for this behavior?

Using rabbitmq 2.7.1 on cluster.

Below is json from manager web api for one such queue. Node host name 
removed. Note consumers "consumers":0 and "auto_delete":true

{"memory":230544,"idle_since":"2012-3-20 10:12:51","exclusive_consumer_tag":"","messages_ready":318,"messages_unacknowledged":0,"messages":318,"consumers":0,"slave_nodes":[],"backing_queue_status":{"q1":0,"q2":0,"delta":["delta","undefined",0,"undefined"],"q3":0,"q4":318,"len":318,"pending_acks":0,"target_ram_count":"infinity","ram_msg_count":318,"ram_ack_count":0,"next_seq_id":318,"persistent_count":0,"avg_ingress_rate":0.1407138438947011,"avg_egress_rate":0.0,"avg_ack_ingress_rate":0.0,"avg_ack_egress_rate":0.0},"messages_details":{"rate":0,"interval":56241811945,"last_event":1332252771225},"messages_ready_details":{"rate":0,"interval":56241811945,"last_event":1332252771225},"messages_unacknowledged_details":{"rate":0,"interval":56241811945,"last_event":1332252771225},"consumer_details":[],"name":"bt.cs.ep.private-7c49741e-018d-48c8-aee3-e654c302176d","vhost":"/","durable":false,"auto_delete":true,"arguments":{},"node":"********"}

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