[VOTE] 3.4.0 RC1

Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 3.4.0. Some of the major features include: * KIP-881: Rack-aware Partition Assignment for Kafka Consumers < https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-881%3A+Rack-aware+Partitio

High CPU usage and throttling of broker

Hi all. We've faced strange broker behaviour in our cluster and are out of thoughts now what could cause it now. One of the brokers is always entering stage with ~90% CPU usage and 5-30% CPU throttling without any visible reason. We have 5 broker cluster with 1 KRaft controller using the latest 3.