<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Do you have a specific set of arguments in mind for netstat? If not I'll go look at the man page.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>The one queue that had 4 messages in it was the only one with that size of message.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color:
transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Other queues have variously sized messages. Some of which are quite large.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">BTW, I'm working on a test program trying to reproduce the issue from the outside. Slim odds granted, but I noticed something weird: when I ctrl-c'd my test program at one point, all the queues, connections and channels went
away, but the admin console still reports about 10gb of memory in use, 15 minutes later.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I'll provide more information as my tests progress.</div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Monday, October 21, 2013 1:01 PM, Emile Joubert
<emile@rabbitmq.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br clear="none">Hi Brian,<br clear="none"><div class="yqt8625472531" id="yqtfd33767"><br clear="none">On 18/10/13 20:33, Brian Hammond wrote:<br clear="none">> This is a topper:<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/ccq0zidcck2ca8j/rabbitMQ-dead-with-0-messages.png" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/ccq0zidcck2ca8j/rabbitMQ-dead-with-0-messages.png</a><br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Using 18gb with 0 messages...</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Thank you very much for this information. This has allowed me to form a<br clear="none">hypothesis about where the memory might be going. In order to confirm,<br clear="none">can you supply the output of netstat on the consumer connections? I'm<br clear="none">particularly interested in the size of the send and receive queue.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Also,
you originally claimed that messages are about 280B. From the<br clear="none">information provided the sizes appear to be much larger than that, some<br clear="none">of them multiple megabytes in size. Can you think of an explanation for<br clear="none">the discrepancy?<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-Emile<div class="yqt8625472531" id="yqtfd27163"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>