[rabbitmq-discuss] Idle TCP Connections to Broker

Fri Apr 20 12:39:24 BST 2012

Thank you very much, Matthias.

-Paul

On Apr 20, 2012, at 5:50 AM, "Matthias Radestock" <matthias at rabbitmq.com> wrote:

> Paul,
>
> On 17/04/12 23:14, Bell, Paul M. wrote:
>> I've heard a "rumor" that the broker will close TCP connections to
>> consumers and producers if these connections are idle for some period
>> of time.
>>
>> Can someone confirm the truth of this? If it's true, is this imposed
>> by Rabbit, or are we talking about an underlying TCP behavior?
>
> The broker does *not* close idle connections. But some firewalls are
> known to do that.
>
>> At the same time, I heard tell of a way of connecting to the broker
>> that allows you to specify a kind of "heartbeat" mode which keeps the
>> connection active by periodically sending a heartbeat message to the
>> broker. Is there such a connection option?
>
> Yes. Check the documentation for the client library. E.g. in the java
> client the setting is at
> http://www.rabbitmq.com/releases/rabbitmq-java-client/v2.8.1/rabbitmq-java-client-javadoc-2.8.1/com/rabbitmq/client/ConnectionFactory.html#setRequestedHeartbeat(int)
>
> Regards,
>
> Matthias.

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