Hi Kafka Dev Team, When I run the test to send message to single partition for 3 minutes or so on, I have encounter deadlock (please see the screen attached) and thread contention from YourKit profiling.
Use Case: 1) Aggregating messages into same partition for metric counting. 2) Replicate Old Producer behavior for sticking to partition for 3 minutes. Here is output: Frozen threads found (potential deadlock) It seems that the following threads have not changed their stack for more than 10 seconds. These threads are possibly (but not necessarily!) in a deadlock or hung. pool-1-thread-128 <--- Frozen for at least 2m org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.RecordAccumulator.append(TopicPartition, byte[], byte[], CompressionType, Callback) RecordAccumulator.java:139 org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer.send(ProducerRecord, Callback) KafkaProducer.java:237 org.kafka.test.TestNetworkDownProducer$MyProducer.run() TestNetworkDownProducer.java:84 java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker) ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145 java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run() ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615 java.lang.Thread.run() Thread.java:744 pool-1-thread-159 <--- Frozen for at least 2m 1 sec org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.RecordAccumulator.append(TopicPartition, byte[], byte[], CompressionType, Callback) RecordAccumulator.java:139 org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer.send(ProducerRecord, Callback) KafkaProducer.java:237 org.kafka.test.TestNetworkDownProducer$MyProducer.run() TestNetworkDownProducer.java:84 java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker) ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145 java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run() ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615 java.lang.Thread.run() Thread.java:744 pool-1-thread-55 <--- Frozen for at least 2m org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.RecordAccumulator.append(TopicPartition, byte[], byte[], CompressionType, Callback) RecordAccumulator.java:139 org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer.send(ProducerRecord, Callback) KafkaProducer.java:237 org.kafka.test.TestNetworkDownProducer$MyProducer.run() TestNetworkDownProducer.java:84 java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker) ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145 java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run() ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615 java.lang.Thread.run() Thread.java:744