[rabbitmq-discuss] Orphaned RabbitMQ Connections Problem Causing Client to Not Communicate With Server

[Rosa, Andrea (HP Cloud Services)]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: rabbitmq-discuss-bounces at lists.rabbitmq.com [mailto:rabbitmq-
>discuss-bounces at lists.rabbitmq.com] On Behalf Of Demetree
>Sent: 16 May 2012 16:14
>To: rabbitmq-discuss at lists.rabbitmq.com
>Subject: [rabbitmq-discuss] Orphaned RabbitMQ Connections Problem
>Causing Client to Not Communicate With Server
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm having an issue with our rabbit servers where one of our sites
>cannot consistenly hold connections ( or so it seems ).  The symptom
>is that the Rabbit MQ server shows multiple connections on multiple
>ports, but they don't correspond to connections on the clients.
>Netstats show a single connection on the client side.
>
>When this situation arises, the clients no longer pull data down from
>the queue.
>
>We're not able to resolve this, and the logs show SSL errors, but this
>also occurs on non-SSL connections.
>
>Has anybody experienced this before, and have any suggestions?

I'd give a go also to the SO_KEEPALIVE option, I think you can enable it on rabbit - via  /etc/rabbitmq/rabbit.config
Let me know if it works
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Andrea Rosa