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If you suspend the qpid process (simulating high qpid load) the candlepin event listener process will hang in its event loop. This causes the dynflow executor to not proceed.

For example:

• on tasks page, view candlepin task process, it should say something like:

{"messages"=>"b190e333-7821-302a-8131-9693e66e2144",
 "last_message"=>"b190e333-7821-302a-8131-9693e66e2144 - import.created",
 "error"=>nil,
 "connection"=>"Connected"}

• now, freeze the qpidd process: kill -19 `pidof qpidd`. Note that the candlepin event listener still thinks its connected.

• do a "hammer ping", it will hang due to https://pulp.plan.io/issues/2253.

• do a "foreman-rake console" and run Katello::Ping.ping(services: [:foreman_tasks]). Note that the executor failed to respond.

Once qpidd is unsuspended via kill -18, things will run normally again.

note: this is the call that hangs: https://github.com/Katello/katello/blob/master/app/lib/actions/candlepin/candlepin_listening_service.rb#L42. The timeout appears to not be honored. I suspect that if qpidd was unresponsive for long enough, the kernel would eventually realize to sever the TCP connection. I have not tested freezing it for over 20 min, but it could take a couple of hours for this to happen. I suspect that the listener would not create a new connection at this point, and if qpid came back, events would start piling up on the katello_event_queue. http://john.eckersberg.com/improving-ha-failures-with-tcp-timeouts.html may provide additional clues about this.