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Romain Hardouin commented on KAFKA-8359:
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{quote}[...] there is no major downside to set leader imbalance percentage to 0.
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Does it mean there are _minor_ downsides?
Following the principle of least astonishment, the default value should be 0
because users expect to have balanced clusters when using
{{auto.leader.rebalance.enable=true}}
> Reconsider default for leader imbalance percentage
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> Key: KAFKA-8359
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-8359
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Dhruvil Shah
> Priority: Major
>
> By default, the leader imbalance ratio is 10%. This means that the controller
> won't trigger preferred leader election for a broker unless the ratio of the
> number of partitions a broker is the current leader of and the number of
> partitions it is the preferred leader of is off by more than 10%. The problem
> is when a broker is catching up after a restart, the smallest topics tend to
> catch up first and the largest ones later, so the 10% remaining difference
> may not be proportional to the broker's load. To keep better balance in the
> cluster, we should consider setting
> `leader.imbalance.per.broker.percentage=0` by default so that the preferred
> leaders are always elected.
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