[rabbitmq-discuss] Lack of Ack, Failure and Re-delivery

[Simone Busoli]

Also in case 2 the broker will redeliver all messages that were not acked,
although it doesn't necessarily mean that the consumer didn't really
consume them already. For that you should look at the redelivered flag.
On Jan 21, 2012 11:20 PM, "Bell, Paul M." <pbell at syncsort.com> wrote:

> I apologize. I should have stated up front that the queues and messages
> are durable.
>
> What happens in case 2, where the consumer bounces?
>
> Thanks, Jason.
>
> -Paul
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Jason J. W. Williams [jasonjwwilliams at gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 5:05 PM
> To: Bell, Paul M.
> Cc: rabbitmq-discuss at lists.rabbitmq.com
> Subject: Re: [rabbitmq-discuss] Lack of Ack, Failure and Re-delivery
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> If the messages were published with the durable flag and the queues are
> durable, the messages will survive the broker restart and be re-presented
> to consumers. If the messages or the queues were not durable they will
> disappear after restart.
>
> -J
>
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> On Jan 21, 2012, at 14:57, "Bell, Paul M." <pbell at syncsort.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Suppose I have a producer on NodeP, a broker on NodeB, and a consumer on
> NodeC. Suppose further that explicit acks are required (i.e., if I've
> understood the docs, that "noack" is not in effect) and that after
> consuming a message from the queue, NodeC.consumer dispatches some other
> work in order to process that message. IOW: NodeC.consumer doesn't respond
> immediately with an ack.
> >
> > So, from NodeB.broker's point of view, the message has been moved from
> the exchange to the queue, consumed, but not yet ack-ed.
> >
> > What will happen under these two scenarios:
> >
> > 1. NodeB.broker bounces - when broker restarts what will he do with
> un-acked messages that have been delivered to queue and haven't been
> ack-ed; e.g., will these be again delivered to the queue?
> >
> >
> > 2. NodeC.consumer bounces - when consumer restarts is there any way he
> can again consume the un-acked message, and begin again the work that this
> message represents? (I suppose that NodeB.broker might be implicated here
> because it might detect the loss of connection to the NodeC.consumer....).
> >
> >
> > When I say "bounces," I mean at a minimum that the application (broker,
> consumer) crashed and restarted. But I am also interested in the case where
> the node's OS is for whatever reason rebooted. Perhaps it looks no
> different.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > -Paul
> >
> >
> >
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