[Openstack-operators] RabbitMQ issues since upgrading to Icehouse

Tim Bell Tim.Bell at cern.ch
Wed Sep 3 05:20:20 UTC 2014


What was the problem with metadata workers set to 2 ?

Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Morrison [mailto:sorrison at gmail.com]
> Sent: 03 September 2014 00:55
> To: Abel Lopez
> Cc: openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org; openstack at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] RabbitMQ issues since upgrading to
> Icehouse
> 
> Hi Abel,
> 
> We were running Havana on Precise before. We moved to Icehouse on Trusty.
> So new kombu etc. too.
> We also moved to new rabbit servers so all the queues were fresh etc.
> 
> Joe: Yeah we have metadata_workers set to 2 also, a little gotcha for the
> icehouse upgrade.
> 
> Cheers,
> Sam
> 
> 
> 
> On 3 Sep 2014, at 6:28 am, Abel Lopez <alopgeek at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > What release were you running before Icehouse?
> > I'm curious if you purged/deleted queues during the upgrade.
> > Might be useful to start fresh with your rabbit, like completely trash your
> mensia during a maintenance window (obviously with your services stopped) so
> they recreate the queues at startup.
> > Also, was kombu upgraded along with your openstack release?
> >
> > On Aug 25, 2014, at 4:17 PM, Sam Morrison <sorrison at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Since upgrading to Icehouse we have seen increased issues with messaging
> relating to RabbitMQ.
> >>
> >> 1. We often get reply_xxxxxx queues starting to fill up with unacked
> messages. To fix this we need to restart the offending service. Usually nova-api
> or nova-compute.
> >>
> >> 2. If you kill a node so as to force an *ungraceful* disconnect of rabbit the
> connection "object?" still sticks around in rabbit. Starting the service again
> means there are now 2 consumers. The new one and the phantom old one. This
> then leads to messages piling up in the unacked queue. This feels like a rabbit
> bug to me but just thought I'd mention it here too.
> >>
> >>
> >> We have have a setup that includes icehouse computes and havana computes
> in the same cloud and we only see this on the icehouse computes. This is using
> Trusty and RabbitMQ 3.3.4
> >>
> >>
> >> Has anyone seen anything like this too?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Sam
> >>
> >>
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