[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMq 3.2.4 Failure on Windows

Tue Jun 24 09:14:07 BST 2014

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On 24 June 2014 at 12:10:13, Justin McCartney (be_strew at yahoo.co.uk) wrote:
> > thanks for the info. I am aware that the error was caused by the 
> inability to delete a file. My question more revolves around 
> why the Erlang process is still running after this critical error? 
> 
> If the error had caused the Erlang process to stop, then Windows 
> could have automatically restarted the service, which in our 
> case would of resolved the problem.

I assume you mean "the Erlang VM OS process". "Erlang process" in RabbitMQ means
something else ;)

One reason is that such issues can be intermittent. We don't want to bring RabbitMQ
down immediately. It's true that there is no sensible way to recover from some issues.
-- 
MK 

Software Engineer, Pivotal/RabbitMQ