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Jeremy A Laycock commented on KAFKA-1426: ----------------------------------------- Ahh think I have the reason - it's the inter-play between specifying a groupId and --from-beginning option on the console consumer. Setting that option clears the /consumers zk directory. In turn that then affects re-balance and all other connected consumers. > Rebalance issue on 0.8.1 > ------------------------ > > Key: KAFKA-1426 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1426 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Components: consumer > Affects Versions: 0.8.1 > Reporter: Jeremy A Laycock > Assignee: Neha Narkhede > Priority: Minor > > When running up 2 console consumers reading from the same group the zookeeper > path /consumers/<my_group>/ids only contains the latest consumer id - then > re-balance fails. > Looking at the rebalance code the only deletion is the > /consumers/<my_group>/owners/<topic>/<partitions> for each partition a > consumer "owns" -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)