Re: problem deleting topic

2016-02-24 Thread Leo Lin
me yesterday while I was deleting other topics (that where > > deleted successfully). But this 2 topics still throw those errors when I > > start kafka. > > > > 2016-02-24 0:27 GMT+01:00 Leo Lin : > > > > > Hi Franco, > > > > > > The default.r

Re: problem deleting topic

2016-02-23 Thread Leo Lin
Hi Franco, The default.replication.factor shouldn't be a problem but the error message does look like you don't have any available brokers? kafka.admin.AdminOperationException: replication factor: 1 larger than available brokers: 0 When you are deleting the topic using the kafka topics tool it do

Re: Resetting Kafka Offsets -- and What are offsets.... exactly?

2016-02-23 Thread Leo Lin
ig retention setting. As you said, it won't > necessarily be 0. > > Sending the same set of messages repeatedly resulted in having a very large > count in the offset - a count that bore no relation to the number of > messages in the topic - which worried me because I couldn'

Re: Resetting Kafka Offsets -- and What are offsets.... exactly?

2016-02-18 Thread Leo Lin
Hi John, Kafka offsets are sequential id numbers that identify messages in each partition. It might not be sequential within a topic (which can have multiple partition). Offsets don't necessarily start at 0 since messages are deleted. .bin/kafka-run-class.sh kafka.tools.GetOffsetShell is pretty