[rabbitmq-discuss] Rabbit crash (1.7.0)

Thu Apr 15 08:12:38 BST 2010

Well, I found the problem in our situation,

One of our publishers was opening too many channels. 

For the library that we are using, if you don't specify the channel_id, then it will open a new one. Our library is a PHP one, I don't know in Jeremy's case.

Regards,

Alvaro

On Apr 15, 2010, at 6:07 AM, Matthias Radestock wrote:

> Jeremy,
> 
> Jeremy Dunck wrote:
>>  We've had a Rabbit 1.7.0 daemon running since January, pretty much
>> the same app load, no changes in client code which uses Rabbit.
>> 
>>  Today it crashed, complaining about too many open processes.  I've
>> zipped up the rabbit.log and the erlang crash log.
> 
> Please accept the rabbit team's condolences on the death of your bunny. 
> According to the logs it seemed to be in good health and spirit and then 
> it suddenly collapsed.
> 
> There is nothing in the logs that points at the cause for reaching the 
> process limit. It's possible that there is a very slow leak somewhere, 
> but I cannot think of any place where that would be, unless your clients 
> sometimes do something strange like create a queue that gets left 
> behind. Hence it's probably worth keeping an eye in the number of queues 
> with
>   rabbitmqctl list_queues
> 
> To check whether there is a slow leak of processes, periodically run
>   erl_call -sname rabbit at localhost -a 'erlang system_info [process_count]'
> which returns the current process count. Depending on how you installed 
> rabbit you may need the -c option to set the Erlang cookie, e.g.
>   erl_call -c `cat /var/lib/rabbitmq/.erlang.cookie` -sname ...
> 
> The count will fluctuate as rabbit does its work, but if you see a 
> general upward trend then please let us know.
> 
> Also, please upgrade to the latest version of RabbitMQ if it's not too 
> much hassle. I don't think that will solve the problem, but it will make 
> investigation easier if the problem reoccurs.
> 
> Here's hoping that the next incarnation of your bunny lives longer.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matthias.
> 
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