JMS Messages keep on growing for a Topic with non-durable consumers

Question

I have a JMS Server whose "Messages Current" keeps on growing after every message send to the topic. All the consumers are non-durable. The session is a non-transacted session with Auto Accknowledge parameter. My client does recieve the message, but it does not go down from the "Messages Current" in the WLS console. Also once the server is restarted, the messages go down to 0.
I am using 9.2 SP2 on a Solaris environment.
Any insight would be helpful

Answer 1

It's possible that one or more the subscribers is stalled for some reason and so is not actually receiving and processing messages. This would cause messages to accumulate. You can examine statistics for individual consumers on the console to see if this is an issue.
Also, there could be a durable subscription on the topic left over from some previous application you used with the topic. There are statistics for these as well.
Yet another possibility is that the clients are receiving the messages but are failing to acknowledge/commit them. You wrote that the sessions are "auto-acknowledge" but they could accidentally be "transacted". Check to make sure that the first parameter passed to "createSession" is true (it should be false), and that the second parameter is set to auto-acknowledge.
Finally, if you happen to be using a distributed topic, keep in mind that if one of the topic members is unavailable/crashed/down messages will accumulate on the other distributed topic members until the unavailable member is restarted (at which point they will be forwarded to the restarted member).
Tom