[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ sometimes does not show messages_ready

Wed Jun 25 15:23:58 BST 2014

Just to let you know: it IS that bug, 'rabbitmqctl list_queues' will
indeed "fix" it.
We will now prepare for version upgrade.

Greetings,
Malte.

On Mi, 2014-06-25 at 14:17 +0200, Malte Hurrelmann wrote:
> The queues can in fact be idle for some time.
> Ok, so I guess it's time for us to upgrade to a more recent version and
> try again.
> 
> Thanks for the support.
> 
> Malte.
> 
> On Mi, 2014-06-25 at 13:05 +0100, Simon MacMullen wrote:
> > Hmmm, that does sound like
> > 
> > 25872 prevent empty queues from showing length as '?' after going idle
> >        (since 3.1.0)
> > 
> > from http://www.rabbitmq.com/release-notes/README-3.2.2.txt
> > 
> > ...although it doesn't seem to be showing '?' in your case.
> > 
> > If it is that bug then the queues will stop showing lengths if they a) 
> > are empty and b) haven't done anything in an hour.
> > 
> > "anything" there is quite strictly defined - even replying to 
> > "rabbitmqctl list_queues" will wake them enough to untrigger the bug. So 
> > you could try that too.
> > 
> > Cheers, Simon
> > 
> > On 25/06/14 12:51, Malte Hurrelmann wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > I recently came across a strange behaviour when asking RabbitMQ (version
> > > 3.1.5) for the number of messages in each queue.
> > >
> > > Normally it all works fine and the usual ways:
> > > - REST-api's key 'messages_ready'
> > > - management-console's 'ready'-column and
> > > - 'rabbitmqctl list_queues'
> > >
> > > all return the expected number of messages for each queue.
> > > But every now and then this information is just missing for most of the
> > > queues. It will return after some time by itself (I saw times up to one
> > > hour, but it may be even more) but as I wrote some scripts that depend
> > > on the REST-api, this behaviour is somewhat annoying.
> > >
> > > Is this a known issue? I looked through the bugfix-sections of each
> > > newer release but could not find an entry where this issue was fixed.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Malte.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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