Hi Suraj, yes, this is the expected and desired behavior: a rebalance is introduced so that all 6 process functions are performing work.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 8:53 PM Suraj Puvvada <su...@traceable.ai> wrote: > Hello > > We are testing a simple use case where we read from kafka -> process and > write to kafka. > > I have set parallelism of the job to 3 and parallelism for the process > function to 6. When I looked at the job graph in the Flink UI noticed that > between the source and process function a rebalance step was introduced. Is > this expected ? > > I was expecting some instances of process tasks to be idle i.e. 3 tasks to > be idle. > > Thanks > Suraj >