Comment 23 for bug 1153077

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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote : Re: [Bug 1153077] Re: rabbitmq queue fills up and celery stops executing tasks when upload_dhcp_leases is done every minute (by default)

On Tuesday 25 Feb 2014 10:17:25 you wrote:
> - Celery went down for a while.
>
> - Celerybeat jobs accumulated in RabbitMQ.

That's weird, the beat stuff is integrated into the celeryd isn't it?

> It's a separate bug, but we should ensure that Celerybeat jobs have a
> very short lifetime. Maybe RabbitMQ or Celery have a mechanism for
> ignoring old jobs. If not, we can add a timestamp check to the job
> implementations themselves.

Yep, we need some protection against this.