Consumer hangs when partition leader is power off

Hello all; I easily reproduce an annoying scenario, using Kafka brokers kafka_2.10-0.8.2.0, but I believe it has nothing to do with the brokersbut only with the consumer API. Here is the problem: a producer is continuously writing using the sync producer api to a topic (2 partitions, replicated)

producer hangs when partition leader is powered off

Hello all; I easily reproduce an annoying scenario, using Kafka brokers kafka_2.10-0.8.2.0, but I believe it has nothing to do with the brokersbut only with the consumer API. Here is the problem: a producer is continuously writing using the sync producer api to a topic (2 partitions, replicated)