GitHub user dpkp opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1523
Support exponential backoff policy via reconnect.backoff.max This PR is an alternate / simplified approach to alternate backoff policies than KIP-53 and KAFKA-3496. Summary: * add `reconnect.backoff.max` common client configuration parameter * if `reconnect.backoff.max` > `reconnect.backoff.ms`, apply an exponential backoff policy * select actual backoff per node via uniform random distribution to smooth cluster reconnects You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/dpkp/kafka exp_backoff Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1523.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #1523 ---- commit 04bf44a44dbd74c60577bb653089b7c455491926 Author: Dana Powers <dana.pow...@gmail.com> Date: 2016-06-19T17:03:37Z Support exponential backoff policy via reconnect.backoff.max ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---