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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-4702: --------------------------------------- Github user tzulitai commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2559#discussion_r80903481 --- Diff: flink-streaming-connectors/flink-connector-kafka-0.9/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/connectors/kafka/internal/Kafka09Fetcher.java --- @@ -86,6 +90,9 @@ /** Flag to mark the main work loop as alive */ private volatile boolean running = true; + /** Flag indicating whether a commit of offsets to Kafka it currently happening */ --- End diff -- nit: it --> "is"? > Kafka consumer must commit offsets asynchronously > ------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-4702 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-4702 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Kafka Connector > Affects Versions: 1.1.2 > Reporter: Stephan Ewen > Assignee: Stephan Ewen > Priority: Blocker > Fix For: 1.2.0, 1.1.3 > > > The offset commit calls to Kafka may occasionally take very long. > In that case, the {{notifyCheckpointComplete()}} method blocks for long and > the KafkaConsumer cannot make progress and cannot perform checkpoints. > Kafka 0.9+ have methods to commit asynchronously. > We should use those and make sure no more than one commit is concurrently in > progress, to that commit requests do not pile up. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)