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ASF GitHub Bot commented on KAFKA-4431: --------------------------------------- GitHub user rajinisivaram opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/2234 KAFKA-4431: Make consumer heartbeat thread a daemon thread You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/rajinisivaram/kafka KAFKA-4431 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/2234.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 #2234 ---- commit 08dbb26c94417872b37c10822fb21621f777dca9 Author: Rajini Sivaram <rajinisiva...@googlemail.com> Date: 2016-12-09T13:57:00Z KAFKA-4431: Make consumer heartbeat thread a daemon thread ---- > HeartbeatThread should be a daemon thread > ----------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-4431 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4431 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Components: clients > Affects Versions: 0.10.1.0 > Reporter: David Judd > Assignee: Rajini Sivaram > > 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", which is not currently a daemon thread. > Per the mailing list, it sounds like this is a bug. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)