[rabbitmq-discuss] Blocking Queue - Close connection by client

[Michael Klishin]

On 10 April 2014 at 10:16:49, Claire Fautsch (cfautsch at goodgamestudios.com) wrote:
> > Unfortunatelly calling the abort function instead of close,  
> will show exactly the same behaviour, as there is still a flush  
> at the end (I also tested this, and indeed not a solution). The  
> only difference is that Exceptions/Stacktraces are ignroed.  
> The only option I see so far to avoid hanging here, is to set a timeout  
> to the close method.

Your observations are correct.

N.B. if you have a connection blocked, opening a new one will only help if the
new connection doesn’t publish anything. Which suggests you can separate connections
that consume and publish from the start. 
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MK  

Software Engineer, Pivotal/RabbitMQ