[rabbitmq-discuss] 2 Node Cluster Configuration becomes unresponsive

[Matthias Radestock]

On 07/08/13 11:28, Simon MacMullen wrote:
> On 07/08/13 09:20, Alexandru Topliceanu wrote:
>> The problem is that it sometimes happens that messages are pilled up in
>> the queue but no longer forwarded to consumers.
>> I don't know what is causing the jam!
>
> I'm not sure either, but this is such basic stuff that I doubt it's the
> broker.

Quite. One issue might be that the connection has died without the 
client noticing. Try enabling amqp heartbeats. I don't know whether 
node.amqp fully supports these; you may want to give amqplib (aka 
amqp.node - https://github.com/squaremo/amqp.node) a try instead.

Matthias.