Topics will only hold onto messages if 1) a consumer is currently connected but hasn't consumed the messages, or 2) a consumer subscribed durably but is now disconnected. #1 indicates a slow (or intentionally misbehaving) consumer, and isn't likely to be a problem over the span of time you're describing. It also would result in the messages being discarded when the broker is restarted, so if you've done a restart and the files weren't cleaned up, this isn't the problem. #2 would be unusual for advisory topic subscriptions, but not impossible (especially since you apparently had this situation with your mis-created non-advisory topic). I'd use JConsole (because it gives more detail than the web console) to go through each queue looking for a non-zero number of messages, and each topic looking for offline durable subscribers that have unconsumed messages.
Alternatively, you all could run the KahaDB file analysis tool ( http://activemq.apache.org/why-do-kahadb-log-files-remain-after-cleanup.html) with a debugger attached to try to see what destination has the message(s) that are keeping 980 and 1438 alive. (You say that 1328 shouldn't be there, but the log shows that it's there because it contains acks for messages in 980, so it should be there, at least until 980 is deleted.) Tim On Sep 22, 2016 6:39 AM, "Steve Hill" <sh...@futurelogix.co.uk> wrote: After the comment about the TOPIC I decided to take a quick look at that in the web interface (just to make sure nothing had gone awry) In deed one of our "queues" had been created as a topic, not sure why as we use the same code to connect to the queues however once removed most of the data files vanished. Under the topics there are several activemq.advisory.xyz topics. Could these be the source of the remaining kahadb log files that still remain? I am now down to three data files that should not be there. (db-980, db-1329, and db-1438) -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Aug 8 14:00 db-980.log -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 527645 Sep 19 19:11 db-1329.log drwxr-xr-x. 5 activemq activemq 4096 Sep 20 14:57 .. -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 8 Sep 21 13:17 lock -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33553518 Sep 21 21:52 db-1438.log drwxr-xr-x. 2 activemq activemq 12288 Sep 22 08:20 . -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 3287296 Sep 22 08:34 db.redo -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 12357632 Sep 22 08:34 db.data -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Sep 22 08:34 db-1456.log >From kahadb logs 2016-09-22 08:31:07,503 [eckpoint Worker] TRACE MessageDatabase - gc candidates: [1329] 2016-09-22 08:31:07,504 [eckpoint Worker] TRACE MessageDatabase - ackMessageFileMap: {1329=[980], 1438=[], 1456=[]} 2016-09-22 08:31:07,504 [eckpoint Worker] TRACE MessageDatabase - not removing data file: 1329 as contained ack(s) refer to referenced file: [980] 2016-09-22 08:31:07,505 [eckpoint Worker] TRACE MessageDatabase - Not yet time to check for compaction: 7 of 10 cycles 2016-09-22 08:31:07,505 [eckpoint Worker] DEBUG MessageDatabase - Checkpoint done. Thanks! Steve. On 9/22/16 8:14 AM, Steve Hill wrote: > Chris/Tim: > > Thanks for the ideas. Unfortunately neither are the case in our > situation. The web client shows 0 messages in any of our queues and we are > not using topics. We did set up the remote debug port and downloaded the > source code if there is anything useful to further troubleshoot that could > be gleaned from there? > > Thanks! > Steve. > > > The most likely place for you to have old messages laying around is in the > DLQ. The next most likely place is on a topic for an offline (and never > coming back) durable subscriber. > > Tim > > On Sep 20, 2016 2:02 PM, "Christopher Shannon" < > christopher.l.shan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Do you have old messages laying around? KahaDB can't clean up old journal > files if there are messages scattered throughout the logs. Even a single > unacked message means that a journal file (and the future files) can't be > cleaned up. This situation tends to happen either when there are old > messages not being acked quick enough or there are different destinations > with different speeds. Ie if one queue has a very slow message rate and > another queue has a high message rate. > > Assuming there isn't some sort of bug with the GC process then one way to > help lower the usage would be to split up destinations into different > stores using multiKahaDB. Take a look at Gary's blog post on this: > http://blog.garytully.com/2011/11/activemq-multiple-kahadb-instances.html > > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Hill, Steve <sh...@armada.net> wrote: > > Hi fellow ActiveMQ users! >> >> I have searched all over the internet and can not find a solution to a >> problem we are experiencing where old log files are not removed from >> KAHADB. Needless to say we uncovered this problem when we exceeded the >> size of our persistent store in production :-) >> >> We are using client side acknowledgement for all reads from the Queue and >> have restarted all clients and also ActiveMQ numerous times, yet the >> messages do not get removed. We are also using the network connector to >> move messages to the queue that has an active consumer. We were using >> 5.13.0 but moved to 5.14.0 on the hope it might address this problem. >> >> Follows are some more detailed messages; does anyone have an idea how we >> can resolve this problem? >> >> KAHADB logging is enabled and we see the following messages in the log >> file. >> >> >> 2016-09-20 08:59:10,207 [eckpoint Worker] TRACE MessageDatabase >> - not removing data file: 1278 as contained ack(s) refer to >> referenced file: [1278, 1277] >> >> 2016-09-20 08:59:10,207 [eckpoint Worker] TRACE MessageDatabase >> - not removing data file: 1279 as contained ack(s) refer to >> referenced file: [674] >> >> 2016-09-20 08:59:10,208 [eckpoint Worker] TRACE MessageDatabase >> - not removing data file: 1280 as contained ack(s) refer to >> referenced file: [691] >> >> 2016-09-20 08:59:10,208 [eckpoint Worker] TRACE MessageDatabase >> - not removing data file: 1281 as contained ack(s) refer to >> referenced file: [699] >> >> 2016-09-20 08:59:10,209 [eckpoint Worker] TRACE MessageDatabase >> - not removing data file: 1282 as contained ack(s) refer to >> referenced file: [699] >> >> 2016-09-20 08:59:10,210 [eckpoint Worker] TRACE MessageDatabase >> - not removing data file: 1283 as contained ack(s) refer to >> referenced file: [705] >> >> 2016-09-20 08:59:10,210 [eckpoint Worker] TRACE MessageDatabase >> - not removing data file: 1284 as contained ack(s) refer to >> referenced file: [711] >> >> 2016-09-20 08:59:10,211 [eckpoint Worker] TRACE MessageDatabase >> - not removing data file: 1288 as contained ack(s) refer to >> referenced file: [674] >> >> 2016-09-20 08:59:10,211 [eckpoint Worker] TRACE MessageDatabase >> - not removing data file: 1289 as contained ack(s) refer to >> referenced file: [790] >> >> 2016-09-20 08:59:10,212 [eckpoint Worker] TRACE MessageDatabase >> - not removing data file: 1290 as contained ack(s) refer to >> referenced file: [1290, 1278] >> >> 2016-09-20 08:59:10,213 [eckpoint Worker] TRACE MessageDatabase >> - not removing data file: 1291 as contained ack(s) refer to >> referenced file: [790] >> >> The files at this point are months old. >> >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Jul 14 21:23 db-674.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Jul 16 01:57 db-691.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Jul 17 02:10 db-699.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Jul 18 03:55 db-705.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Jul 19 01:32 db-711.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Jul 25 15:15 db-790.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Jul 26 10:32 db-858.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Jul 27 00:19 db-865.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Jul 27 03:03 db-866.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Jul 28 01:45 db-877.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Jul 29 01:18 db-888.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Jul 30 02:10 db-899.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Jul 31 01:11 db-904.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Aug 1 00:19 db-909.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Aug 1 04:42 db-910.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Aug 2 01:07 db-918.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Aug 3 01:38 db-930.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Aug 4 00:19 db-939.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Aug 4 03:16 db-940.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Aug 5 00:23 db-949.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Aug 6 02:42 db-960.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Aug 7 02:18 db-968.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Aug 8 00:44 db-975.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Aug 8 14:00 db-980.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Aug 8 15:41 db-981.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Aug 9 01:43 db-1051.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Aug 11 00:20 db-1066.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Aug 11 03:01 db-1067.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Aug 12 00:19 db-1074.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Aug 12 03:05 db-1075.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Aug 13 00:19 db-1082.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Aug 13 03:04 db-1083.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Aug 14 01:06 db-1093.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Aug 15 01:18 db-1111.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Aug 16 02:38 db-1126.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Aug 17 00:19 db-1137.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Aug 17 02:32 db-1138.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Aug 18 00:21 db-1155.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Aug 19 00:51 db-1167.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 33554432 Sep 19 13:42 db-1277.log >> >> -rw-r--r--. 1 activemq activemq 597139 Sep 19 14:59 db-1279.log >> >> Thanks! >> >> Steve Hill >> >> ARMADA >> >> >> >> >> The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments is >> confidential and >> intended only for the recipient. 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