HornetQ Consumer Stops Receiving Messages After N hours - jboss

Question

I'm using a HornetQ(v2.2.13) consumer, running standalone, to read off a Persistent topic published by a JBOSS server(7.1.1 final). All goes well for several hours (between 2-6) and then the consumer just stops receiving messages from the topic. From the log file on the server, I see data keeps getting pumped down the pipe but the consumer log file indicates the client stopped reading the data. I deduced that from the client saying the last time it read a message off the topic was 12:00:00 and the server log saying the last time it pushed a message to the topic was 14:00:00.
I've tried adjusting the HornetQ configs, but it doesn't seem to be working for a sustainable duration.
The code I use to communicate with the topic is as follows.
private TransportConfiguration getTC(String hostname) {
Map<String,Object> params = new HashMap<String, Object>();
params.put(TransportConstants.HOST_PROP_NAME, hostname);
params.put(TransportConstants.PORT_PROP_NAME, 5445);
TransportConfiguration tc = new TransportConfiguration(NettyConnectorFactory.class.getName(), params);
return tc;
}
private Topic createDestination(String destinationName) {
Topic topic = new HornetQTopic(destinationName);
return topic;
}
private HornetQConnectionFactory createCF(TransportConfiguration tc) {
HornetQConnectionFactory cf = HornetQJMSClient.createConnectionFactoryWithoutHA(JMSFactoryType .CF, tc);
return cf == null ? null : cf;
}
Code snippet that creates the session and starts it:
TransportConfiguration tc = this.getTC(this.hostname);
HornetQConnectionFactory cf = this.createCF(tc);
cf.setRetryInterval(4000);
cf.setReconnectAttempts(10);
cf.setConfirmationWindowSize(1000000);
Destination destination = this.createDestination(this.topicName);
logger.info("Starting Topic Connection");
try {
this.connection = cf.createConnection();
connection.start();
this.session = connection.createSession(transactional, ackMode);
MessageConsumer consumer = session.createConsumer(destination);
consumer.setMessageListener(this);
logger.info("Started topic connection");
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
logger.error("EXCEPTION!");
}

Answer 1

You don't get any log about server getting disconnected on the server's side.
Did you try playing with client-failure-check-period and other ping parameters?
What about VM Settings?
How are you acknowledging the messages? I see that you created it as transaction. Are you sure you are committing the TX as you recieve messages?