[AMQ-5179] queuesize can be unreliable

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Affects Version/s: 5.9.0, 5.9.1
• Component/s: Broker
• Labels: monitoring queue

Environment

windows 8.1, centOS 6.4

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Morteza
• Created: 11/May/14 11:25
• Updated: 18/Dec/14 08:25
• Resolved: 21/Jul/14 21:01

Description

We noticed that sometimes queuesize attribute of some queues are different from the count of messages that exist in the queue. for example queuesize is 9 but there are no messages in the queue. This issue has happened frequently so after investigation we created a test case for the problem.

The test case creates 5 message that each consist of an array of 1 million random bytes. On first run it creates the 5 messages and queuesize becomes 5 as expected. On subsequent runs the messages won't persist on queue but queue size is increased by 5.

Now as a client the code could be improved to prevent such problem but from the perspective of someone who wants to monitor broker states, this is a total failure since she can't know the amount of remaining messages on a queue.