[rabbitmq-discuss] Unacked messages going back in the queue

Fri Mar 22 11:24:47 GMT 2013

On 03/22/2013 10:54 AM, Tim Watson wrote:
> Hi Pierpaolo!
>
> On 03/22/2013 08:11 AM, Tim Watson wrote:
>> If the channel is disappearing (because rabbit considers the 
>> connection to have dropped) then I would suggest configuring 
>> heartbeats in your client too ensure the connection stays alive.
>
> Someone just kindly pointed out that you're using 3.0.4 - which means 
> my advice isn't all that helpful as the server will negotiate 
> heartbeats with the client by default (and pika has support for 
> heartbeats). So my suspicion, is that if un-acked messages are 
> disappearing and the client has not rejected them, that the connection 
> must have been
> disrupted somehow (network failure, packet loss, ?) causing the broker 
> to re-queue them, or the consumer must have crashed or a channel error 
> generated. Is there anything in the logs to indicate what might be 
> happening?
>

In fact, depending on how you're interacting with the broker, that 
heartbeat might not get handled by pika and the broker will disconnect 
you anyway. Are you using BlockingConnection by any chance?

> Cheers,
> Tim
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