How do I permanently remove a celery task from rabbitMQ?

Question

I have around 10,000 scheduled tasks on my current celery setup. I didn\'t realize what scheduled tasks were and decided to use them to send follow-up emails months in advan

Answer 1

1. To properly purge the queue of waiting tasks you have MUST to stop all the workers (http://celery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html#i-ve-purged-messages-but-there-are-still-messages-left-in-the-queue):

$ sudo rabbitmqctl stop

or (in case RabbitMQ/message broker is managed by Supervisor):

$ sudo supervisorctl stop all

2. ...and then purge the tasks from a specific queue:

$ cd 
$ celery amqp queue.purge 

3. Start RabbitMQ:

$ sudo rabbitmqctl start

or (in case RabbitMQ is managed by Supervisor):

$ sudo supervisorctl start all