For some extra info, this was a restart of the just zookeeper and kafka, our clients were all still online.
Karl On Apr 23, 2013, at 10:50 AM, Karl Kirch <kki...@wdtinc.com> wrote: > Our setup is a three node cluster, we have a Kafka 0.7.2 (with 10 partitions > per node) and Zookeeper 3.3.4 on each node. I'm seeing that only one broker > is being used to actually send messages through. We're seeing this behavior > after a restart and deletion of the kafka data (/tmp/kafka-logs). In the past > its used all three and worked fine. > > Is this normal? (i.e. it takes some time to spread across the cluster) Or > should it distribute stuff immediately? > > Karl