[rabbitmq-discuss] Shovel stops receiving acks from cluster

Francesco Mazzoli francesco at rabbitmq.com
Wed Aug 15 18:01:45 BST 2012


Hi Jon,

At Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:00:54 +0000,
Jon Bergli Heier wrote:
> This is the shovel config on the broker (with credentials and hostnames
> replaced).  The broker nodes in destination are the cluster nodes, and source
> is the local broker I'm shoveling messages from.
> 
> [...]
> 
> The problem appears when I shut down and then start rabbit1 or rabbit2 (using
> either the debian init script or rabbitmqctl stop_app). All servers are VMs,
> and I've also reproduced this problem by forcing a shutdown of the VM and then
> booting it up again.
>
> I've checked the shovel status in the management interface and it always shows
> as "running" even when the problem appears.

OK, so if I understand correctly after you restart rabbit1 or rabbit2 the shovel
plugin stops sending ack after consuming from the source queue, right?

> On a related note, when letting the broker sit idle for a while (approx. 24
> hours by now) the shovel seems to disconnect from the destination without
> reconnecting even with messages still in the source queue (all of them shows
> as "ready" with none "unacked").

Mhm.  Again, what does the shovel status show?  The logs would be useful as
well.

--
Francesco * Often in error, never in doubt


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