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Dana Powers commented on KAFKA-3878: ------------------------------------ Proposed implementation at https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1523 > Support exponential backoff for broker reconnect attempts > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-3878 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3878 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: clients, network > Reporter: Dana Powers > > The client currently uses a constant backoff policy, configured via > 'reconnect.backoff.ms' . To reduce network load during longer broker outages, > it would be useful to support an optional exponentially increasing backoff > policy. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)