[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ Message consuming issue (when consumer keepting idle)

Thu Apr 10 12:51:50 BST 2014

On 10 April 2014 at 14:56:28, Mahendrakumar Yadavalli (mahendrakumary at neelinfo.com) wrote:
> > Both the producer and consumer are working fine. We got an issue  
> like “when the android device kept idle for a long time, and start  
> working on it after some time, then messages are not consuming  
> from consumer side. once we delete the queue then it will work  
> fine”. The problem is when we kept the client device idle for long  
> time this issue occurs.

There have to be some error messages somewhere. One possible reason is
that when a device goes idle for a long time, Android hibernates
the app entirely and it does not send out heartbeats, so RabbitMQ
considers the connection dead.

There should be warnings in RabbitMQ log about this.
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MK  

Software Engineer, Pivotal/RabbitMQ