be carefully reading the following, next:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/KAFKA/kafka-replication.html.
>
> thanks,
> rob
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Rob Withers [mailto:reefed...@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 7:20 AM
> > To: 'users@k
; Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 7:20 AM
> To: 'users@kafka.apache.org'
> Subject: RE: consuming only half the messages produced
>
> Yes, I mean we can only consume half the messages produced. I followed
the
> high-level consumer example here:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/c
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> From: Jun Rao [mailto:jun...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 11:15 PM
> To: users@kafka.apache.org
> Subject: Re: consuming only half the messages produced
>
> Partition is different from replicas. A topic can have one or more
partitions
> and each partition ca
Partition is different from replicas. A topic can have one or more
partitions and each partition can have one or more replicas. A consumer
consumes data at partition level. In other words, a consumer gets the same
data no matter how many replicas are there.
When you say the consumer only gets half
Running a consumer group (createStreams()), pointing to the zookeeper and
with the topic and 1 consumer thread, results in only half the messages
being consumed. The topic was auto-created, with a replication factor of 2,
but the producer was configured to produce to 2 brokers and so 4 partitions
