Hi, I'm doing a pre-production stress test on activeMQ and I have constantly issues with blocked consumers.
Here is an example stack that I retrieved from the JMX console: Name: defaultMessageListenerContainer-1 State: TIMED_WAITING on java.lang.Object@574ff50a Total blocked: 2 Total waited: 5,310 Stack trace: java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method) org.apache.activemq.SimplePriorityMessageDispatchChannel.dequeue(SimplePriorityMessageDispatchChannel.java:89) org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQMessageConsumer.dequeue(ActiveMQMessageConsumer.java:452) org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQMessageConsumer.receive(ActiveMQMessageConsumer.java:577) org.springframework.jms.connection.CachedMessageConsumer.receive(CachedMessageConsumer.java:74) org.springframework.jms.listener.AbstractPollingMessageListenerContainer.receiveMessage(AbstractPollingMessageListenerContainer.java:429) org.springframework.jms.listener.AbstractPollingMessageListenerContainer.doReceiveAndExecute(AbstractPollingMessageListenerContainer.java:310) org.springframework.jms.listener.AbstractPollingMessageListenerContainer.receiveAndExecute(AbstractPollingMessageListenerContainer.java:263) org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer$AsyncMessageListenerInvoker.invokeListener(DefaultMessageListenerContainer.java:1059) org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer$AsyncMessageListenerInvoker.executeOngoingLoop(DefaultMessageListenerContainer.java:1051) org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer$AsyncMessageListenerInvoker.run(DefaultMessageListenerContainer.java:948) java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) This is after passing about 160,000 messages through a topic, each about 400k of payload. As both my consumers are stopped listening at the same time (listening to different brokers in a network of brokers topology) this seems to be more a problem on the broker's end, some locking or so. Both brokers switched into flow control mode ("Producers will be throttled to the rate at which messages are removed from this destination to prevent flooding it.") a while before that happened. Cheers, Kai