GitHub user ConcurrencyPractitioner opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/4049
[KAFKA-5212] Consumer ListOffsets request can starve group heartbeats Through the identification of the poll method in ConsumerCoordinator as the place where the heartbeat is sent, I modified the metadata so that it polled periodically every interval for a heartbeat. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/ConcurrencyPractitioner/kafka trunk Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/4049.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 #4049 ---- commit 431bc8011ce3f8aaa677e2f6743c9b069a1eec8c Author: Richard Yu <richar...@richards-air.attlocal.net> Date: 2017-10-10T03:45:23Z [KAFKA-5212] Consumer ListOffsets request can starve group heartbeats ---- ---