Hey David, It probably should be a daemon thread. Perhaps open a JIRA?
Thanks, Jason On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 2:03 PM, David Judd <dj...@stripe.com.invalid> wrote: > Hi folks, > > We're seeing an issue where an exception inside the main processing loop of > a consumer doesn't cause the JVM to exit, as expected (and, in our case, > desired). From the thread dump, it appears that what's blocking exit is the > "kafka-coordinator-heartbeat-thread". From what I understand of what it > does, it seems to me like this should be a daemon thread, but it's not. Is > this a bug, or deliberate? > > Thanks, > David >