[rabbitmq-discuss] connection and consumer counts all wrong

Wed Feb 15 15:22:38 GMT 2012

Do you see these connections in rabbitmqctl / mgmt?

Have you enabled heartbeats?

Cheers, Simon

On 15/02/12 15:17, Aaron Westendorf wrote:
> We're regularly able to break rabbits tracking of consumer counts on a
> queue, such that it says "X consumers" whereas the reality is "X - N
> consumers" where N>0. This seems to be triggered by disagreement as to
> the state of sockets, likely caused by an unclean disconnect by a
> client. This could be caused by any number of things, such as
> rebooting on of our client VMs or maybe just a connection drop inside
> our providers network (a common and unwelcome event).
>
> We've seen this problem on 2.5.1 + R14B01, and are continuing to see
> it on 2.7.1 + R15B.  I can try to provide additional details on
> request.
>
> My concerns on consumer counts are two-fold. First, we have no way to
> validate that num_procs==num_consumers, an important metric when
> validating that our platform is running correctly. Second, we don't
> know if rabbit is pushing messages to these ghost consumers, and if
> so, what's happening to them.
>
> -Aaron
>
>

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Simon MacMullen
RabbitMQ, VMware