Which environment do you have? Are you using an application server with ActiveMQ RAR or are the clients running standalone?
We had recently a problem with a message driven bean (Glassfish+ActiveMQ RAR), which stopped acknowledging messages and they were accumulating in the queue. All the messages were hanging at the consumer because MessageCountAwaitingAcknowledge JMS property of the consumer was >> 0. So for some reason the consumer was not properly closed. Maybe you have a similar situation. Best regards, Sergiy -- View this message in context: http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/ActiveMQ-5-10-0-queue-slowed-down-restart-helped-tp4690706p4690723.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.