Thanks.. I’m investigating whether this is slow consumer activity but I
don’t have any log error messages marking them as slow.


On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 6:59 AM, Tim Bain <tb...@alumni.duke.edu> wrote:

> Look in JMX to view all the consumers for a queue; for each one, look at
> the dispatched count and see whether it's around zero, around your prefetch
> buffer size, or somewhere in the middle.
>
> If they're all near zero, that means the broker isn't delivering messages
> to the clients' prefetch buffer fast enough, though I don't have any
> guesses about what mighht cause that.  If they're all near the prefetch
> size, then the client code isn't turning messages over to your code fast
> enough (possibly due to transactional behavior as Tim alluded to).  And if
> they're all in the middle, then i have no idea what that means.
>
> Tim
> On Feb 28, 2015 10:40 PM, "Tim Robbins" <tim.robb...@outlook.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Kevin,
> >
> > Knowing how the clients are consuming messages could help, i.e. whether
> > it’s transactional or not, whether MessageConsumers are being
> > reused/pooled, etc. As a long shot, I’d try lowering the prefetch limit
> > client side. I’ve had to do this occasionally to work around inefficient
> > Camel clients.
> > http://activemq.apache.org/what-is-the-prefetch-limit-for.html <
> > http://activemq.apache.org/what-is-the-prefetch-limit-for.html>
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > > On 1 Mar 2015, at 1:32 pm, Kevin Burton <bur...@spinn3r.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I’m having a weird situation where ActiveMQ is refusing to send
> messages
> > to
> > > my consumers.
> > >
> > > I have 4 main queues that my consumers receive messages on. I have
> plenty
> > > of them.  They have plenty of CPU, network, etc.
> > >
> > > I looked at their stack traces and they’re ALL waiting to receive
> > messages.
> > >
> > > ActiveMQ has about 7000 messages in these 4 queues that it’s just
> > trickling
> > > out to the consumers.  VERY slow rate.
> > >
> > > The box it’s running on is fine.  ActiveMQ has plenty of memory, isn’t
> > > GCing.  I also looked at its stack traces and nothing weird here.
> > >
> > > It’s just not sending at a very fast rate.
> > >
> > > Now, if I restart all my daemons, including ActiveMQ , everything works
> > > fine for about 1-2 hours, then I get to this stall point again.
> > >
> > > I’ve read about the slow consumers.  I don’t have any log warnings for
> > this
> > > so I don’t think that’s a problem.  (plus these are queues).
> > >
> > > Anything else I should look into?
> > >
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