There has to be some live/stray consumer somewhere committing that offset given the information shown in mtime. Can you check under /consumers/g1/ids to see what if there are any registered consumers?
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:27 PM, arathi maddula <arathimadd...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I use a Java high level consumer to read from a topic with compression set > to snappy. When I query the consumer offset for that group using zookeeper > shell, the offset value oscillates between 2 values. I use kafka 0.8 and I > never faced this issue before. This happens even when there are no high > level consumers running. Could you please tell why this happens? > > get /consumers/g1/offsets/z1/0 > *45212345* > cZxid = 0x54a5aa > ctime = Mon Jul 08 14:10:00 EDT 2013 > mZxid = 0x6bb643 > mtime = Mon Jul 15 15:24:47 EDT 2013 > pZxid = 0x54a5aa > cversion = 0 > dataVersion = 857118 > aclVersion = 0 > ephemeralOwner = 0x0 > dataLength = 8 > numChildren = 0 > > get /consumers/g1/offsets/z1/0 > *28997714* > cZxid = 0x54a5aa > ctime = Mon Jul 08 14:10:00 EDT 2013 > mZxid = 0x6bb67e > mtime = Mon Jul 15 15:25:07 EDT 2013 > pZxid = 0x54a5aa > cversion = 0 > dataVersion = 857157 > aclVersion = 0 > ephemeralOwner = 0x0 > dataLength = 8 > numChildren = 0 > > > > Thanks > Arathi