Neha, That makes perfect sense now... :)
The console consumer is working just how I expect it to work now with that option removed from the command line. Thanks, Eric On 4/19/13 10:31 AM, "Neha Narkhede" <neha.narkh...@gmail.com> wrote: >The reason is the console consumer deletes the previous state information >from zookeeper when given the from-beginning option. So effectively only >the 2nd consumer instance is alive. You can run ConsumerShell instead. > >Thanks, >Neha > >On Thursday, April 18, 2013, Eric Sites wrote: > >> Jun, >> >> I have been trying to test 0.8 using two consumers on the same group ID. >> >> When I start the second consumer the first stops receiving messages. >> >> Can you help? >> >> Single Kafka server, single topic, 3 partitions, single Zookeeper. >> >> 1 console consumer running in one session. >> >> 1 console consumer running in another session. >> >> sudo /opt/kafka/bin/kafka-list-topic.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 >> topic: Files partition: 0 leader: 0 replicas: 0 isr: 0 >> topic: Files partition: 1 leader: 0 replicas: 0 isr: 0 >> topic: Files partition: 2 leader: 0 replicas: 0 isr: 0 >> >> # Start the producer, and type some test messages >> sudo /opt/kafka/bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --broker-list >>localhost:9092 >> --topic Files >> >> # Start first consumer >> sudo /opt/kafka/bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 >> --topic Files --from-beginning --group 1 >> >> # Start the second consumer, type some more messages on the producer and >> only this consumer get the messages >> sudo /opt/kafka/bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 >> --topic Files --from-beginning --group 1 >> >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> Eric >> >> On 4/19/13 12:28 AM, "Jun Rao" <jun...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote: >> >> >We have been testing 0.8 at LinkedIn for some time. We plan to release >>an >> >0.8 beta version next week. >> > >> >Thanks, >> > >> >Jun >> > >> > >> >On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Itai Frenkel >><it...@gigaspaces.com<javascript:;> >> > >> >wrote: >> > >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> We're considering to use Kafka, and would like to know the Java/ >> >> Scala/Kafka version combination in which it is being used in >>production. >> >> The wiki "Operations" page states that "We are running Kafka 0.7 >>right >> >>now >> >> but may move to trunk as we fix bugs." >> >> >> >> While I read here that 0.8 was scheduled to be in production in >>LinkedIn >> >> about a month ago. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>http://search-hadoop.com/m/4TaT4gjlc12/kafka+production+version&subj=Re+W >> >>hich+version+to+choose+gt+0+8+or+0+72 >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Itai >> >> >> >>