[rabbitmq-discuss] Rabbit Cluster "hangs" on consumer disconnects

[Simon MacMullen]

On 04/11/2013 19:29, Cordell, Ron wrote:
>>> What happens if you attempt to shut down the service by issuing
>>> "rabbitmqctl stop" rather than stopping the Windows service?
>
> Ah, sorry for the confusion. We don't actually try to stop the
> RabbitMQ windows service instances - those stay running. We are
> shutting down the application Windows Service instances that rely on
> Rabbit, however.

And that alone causes RabbitMQ to become unresponsive? Is there anything 
in the regular or sasl logs from around this time (other than the 
connection_closed_abruptly things, which just indicate that the AMQP 
connection was closed before going through the AMQP close handshake)?

Cheers, Simon