All, I stumbled across a recent issue about Kafka crashing on Windows the other day, which keeps coming up on jira. So I went and had a look and found 16 unresolved tickets about this - some of them definitely are duplicates, some of them might be a variation.
KAKFA-1194 - The kafka broker cannot delete the old log files after the configured time KAKFA-2170 - 10 LogTest cases failed for file.renameTo failed under windows KAKFA-5377 - Kafka server process crashing due to access violation (caused by log cleaner) KAKFA-6059 - Kafka cant delete old log files on windows KAKFA-6200 - 00000000000000000015.timeindex: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. KAKFA-6203 - Kafka crash when deleting a topic KAKFA-6406 - Topic deletion fails and kafka shuts down (on windows only) KAKFA-6689 - Kafka not release .deleted file. KAKFA-6983 - Error while deleting segments - The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process KAKFA-7020 - Error when deleting topic with access denied exception KAKFA-7086 - Kafka server process dies after try deleting old log files under Windows 10 KAKFA-7575 - Error while writing to checkpoint file' Issue KAKFA-8097 - Kafka broker crashes with java.nio.file.FileSystemException Exception KAKFA-8145 - Broker fails with FATAL Shutdown on Windows, log or index renaming fail KAKFA-8811 - Can not delete topics in Windows OS KAKFA-9458 - Kafka crashed in windows environment KAKFA-1194 to me seems to have seen the most activity and been there first, so I'd propose to track this all work related to file deletion and renames on Windows under this ticket. Objections? Also, is anybody aware of any activity around this still going on? Reading through the comments for a little while it looked like a fix was close, but the most current state on this I could find was a comment from Colin [1] saying that the proposed fix fell short of a proper solution and that we'd need to have a Windows specific implementation of the Log class. But I was unable to find anybody picking up this piece of work.. Best, Sönke [1] https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/6329#issuecomment-505209147
