# How to stopconsumer properly

**URL:** <https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-to-stopconsumer-properly/19726>\
**Category:** Async/Channels\
**Created:** [March 22, 2023, 9:27pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-to-stopconsumer-properly/19726 "2023-03-22T21:27:00Z")\
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I’m having trouble with my websocket stability and I’m afraid it’s because I’m not shutting down everything before calling StopConsumer(). So, when I raise StopConsumer() in websocket\_disconnect() will my async websocket\_receive() stop?

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Can you be more specific and provide more details about what exactly is happening here?

Note the docs for [`Closing Consumers`](https://channels.readthedocs.io/en/stable/topics/consumers.html?highlight=stopconsumer#closing-consumers):

> Once you have finished doing your post-disconnect cleanup, you need to raise `channels.exceptions.StopConsumer` to halt the ASGI application cleanly and let the server clean it up.

This implies that you raise it _after_ you have finished _all_ of your work related to the disconnect.

However, also note that it’s already raised in websocket\_disconnect - are you overriding that function?