Neha, Does that hold true for both .7.x and .8?
Joe On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com>wrote: > That is correct, you cannot have more active consumers than the total > # of partitions. > > Thanks, > Neha > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Michael Golowka > <michael.golo...@returnpath.com> wrote: > > What is the relationship between topic partitions and consumers? From > what I've read and experimented with, the number of partitions limits the > number of active consumers in a given consumer group on a given topic. So > if the number of partitions is 10, and the number of consumers is 12 (all > in the same group), 2 consumers will not receive any data unless one of the > active consumers dies. Is this correct? Is there a way that you can have > more consumers than partitions? > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > Michael Golowka >
