Ok, yes, suspected it had with to do with the underlaying TCP stack, thank you for the detailed explanation!
<br/><br/><br/><br/>On Tuesday 7 May 2013 at 14:58, Tim Watson-6 [via RabbitMQ] wrote:
<br/><div class='shrinkable-quote'><br/>> Hi,
<br/>>
<br/>> On 7 May 2013, at 04:32, carlhoerberg wrote:
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<br/>> > It looks like the rabbitmq java client doesn't raise an exception as soon as
<br/>> > a connection fails, eg. due to network cable disconnection.
<br/>> >
<br/>> > The following code will continue to run for 2 minutes after the
<br/>> > disconnection, and first then raise an exception.
<br/>>
<br/>>
<br/>> That's perfectly normal, for a network driven application. It is not RabbitMQ's client library that wait's to throw an exception, but rather it is the operating system's network stack that takes time to determine that a peer socket is no longer available. This can take many minutes, even when you're connecting via the loopback interface (i.e., localhost) for testing.
<br/>>
<br/>> On most unices, the relevant bits of `man tcp` are:
<br/>>
<br/>> "When a network error occurs, TCP tries to resend the packet. If it
<br/>> doesn't succeed after some time, either ETIMEDOUT or the last received
<br/>> error on this connection is reported."
<br/>>
<br/>> In that second sentence, "after some time" is determined by the OS kernel configured limits, viz tcp_retries1 (defaults to 3 on linux) and tcp_retries2, and the configured retransmission timeout. Of course there are doubtless other parameters that interact with this behaviour. So you're quite lucky because it's a producer application that's trying to send - those time out much faster. For network consumer applications, this problem is quite a tricky on because the default settings on linux for example, mean delays of between 10 and 30 minutes before the OS networking layer "notices" the connection has timed out.
<br/>>
<br/>> This problem is, of course, not specific to RabbitMQ.
<br/>>
<br/>> Cheers,
<br/>> Tim
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