[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ very slow (or never) shuts down

[Tim Watson]

Hi Matt,

On 10 Dec 2012, at 19:00, Matt Pietrek wrote:

> Quick follow up on this - Was this bug fix implemented in 2.8.7 or something later, i.e. 3.0?
> 

According to the bug tracker, the fix for this was included in the 3.0.0 release.

> I think I'm running into this again when shutting down a set of bi-directionally federated brokers. It appears when a broker shuts down, it wants to reach over to the other broker to clean up something (federation queue?)
> 
> If the other broker has already shut down, the currently shutting-down broker will stall for a very long time (e.g. 15 minutes or more.)
> 

Yeah that sounds like the canonical scenario. You will need to plan an upgrade to 3.0.0 to see the benefits of this fix I'm afraid. Please make sure you plan your upgrade carefully as there are breaking changes between the 2.8.x series and 3.0.0.

Cheers,
Tim