And then if I immediately purge the queue, and add more messages to the queues, they immediately work. So it seems to be some bug related to dispatch of the queue if it’s too large.
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:11 PM, Kevin Burton <bur...@spinn3r.com> wrote: > It looks like this is a function of queue size.. if it grows large enough, > eventually, it seems, ActiveMQ stops dispatching messages to the consumers. > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 6:55 PM, Kevin Burton <bur...@spinn3r.com> wrote: > >> I have a very strange bug I’m trying to track down. >> >> I have a very loaded ActiveMQ box (8 of them actually)… for the most part >> it’s working very well. >> >> However, I recently noticed that some of our queues aren’t actually doing >> any work. Other queues are performing just fine. In fact, the vast >> majority of them are performing fine. >> >> It’s just a few of them each with the same name. >> >> I’ve tried restarting both of my apps that consume my message, only to >> find the exact same behavior. >> >> The code is basically just not reading new messages sent to these given >> queues. >> >> I can’t restart the broker because we’re using the memory store for >> performance reasons. >> >> I can browse them manually … the messages are there. JMX reports >> thousands of messages waiting to be executed. >> >> One theory I have is maybe the ActiveMQ connection isn’t properly handing >> messages to all my consumers. The box is rather loaded. I’m also calling >> receiveNoWait.. to read these queues. So perhaps some buffer is being >> filled up with other queues or some of my connections aren’t being serviced? >> >> Thoughts? >> >> -- >> >> Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com >> Location: *San Francisco, CA* >> blog: http://burtonator.wordpress.com >> … or check out my Google+ profile >> <https://plus.google.com/102718274791889610666/posts> >> <http://spinn3r.com> >> >> > > > -- > > Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com > Location: *San Francisco, CA* > blog: http://burtonator.wordpress.com > … or check out my Google+ profile > <https://plus.google.com/102718274791889610666/posts> > <http://spinn3r.com> > > -- Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com Location: *San Francisco, CA* blog: http://burtonator.wordpress.com … or check out my Google+ profile <https://plus.google.com/102718274791889610666/posts> <http://spinn3r.com>
