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Chris Riccomini commented on KAFKA-1755: ---------------------------------------- It might also be desirable to allow the log compaction to continue on the topic in question, and simply keep all messages without keys without doing any compaction on them. > Log cleaner thread should not exit on errors > -------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-1755 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1755 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Joel Koshy > Fix For: 0.8.3 > > > The log cleaner is a critical process when using compacted topics. > However, if there is any error in any topic (notably if a key is missing) > then the cleaner exits and all other compacted topics will also be adversely > affected - i.e., compaction stops across the board. > This can be improved by just aborting compaction for a topic on any error and > keep the thread from exiting. > Another improvement would be to reject messages without keys that are sent to > compacted topics although this is not enough by itself. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)