[rabbitmq-discuss] Message unacked, Queue not responding...

[Matthias Radestock]

On 21/11/12 08:36, jhiemer wrote:
> Good Morning guys,
> I have a question regarding queues with Rounting Key. It set the queues
> up, and the first two hours it runs very well. After a few hours of
> runtime the messages get into the queue, get the Unacked tag, but
> nothing happens. Even if I remove the consumer the messages are still in
> the Unacked state. First when I restart both, RabbitMQ Server as well as
> the consumer, or close the consumer and wait for 15 (?) minute, it works
> again. It seems that this is an issue with the timeout period or something?

Sounds like the connection has been broken but the server hasn't 
noticed. Try enabling heartbeats in your client which a) will hopefully 
keep the connection alive, and b) if not, provide early detection of the 
failure.

Matthias.