Not able to run multiple consumer instances

and using socket connect (Encoder/Decoder) for connecting consumer and producer. Regards, Paresh Behede

Problems encountered during the consumer shutdown.

back up again periodically and the process repeats. At some point we see that the rebalance starts failing since the old zookeeper client's are still in connected state. Wanted to know if anyone else has seen this problem. thanks Paresh

Problems encountered during the consumer shutdown.

That is exactly what we are doing. But in the shutdown path we see the following exception. 2013-12-19 23:21:54,249 FATAL [kafka.consumer.ZookeeperConsumerConnector] (EFKafkaMessageFetcher-retryLevelThree) [TestretryLevelThreeKafkaGroup_pshah-MacBook-Pro.local-1387494830478-efdbacea], error du

Problems encountered during the consumer shutdown.

exception around the call to stopConnections(). Please confirm if my understanding is correct. thanks Paresh

Problems encountered during the consumer shutdown.

This is on the 0.8.0-beta1 code base. So if I understand right, moving to 0.8.0 should not cause the above problem? Is there a specific change that fixes this behaviour change in 0.8.0? Paresh