The more accurate formula is the following since fetch size is per partition.
<consumer threads> * <queuedchunks.max> * <fetch size> * #partitions Thanks, Jun On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Drew Daugherty < drew.daughe...@returnpath.com> wrote: > Thank you Jun. It turned out an OOME was thrown in one of the consumer > fetcher threads. Speaking of which, what is the best method for > determining the consumer memory usage? I had read that the formula below > would suffice, but I am questioning it: > > <consumer threads> * <queuedchunks.max> * <fetch size> > > -drew > ________________________________________ > From: Jun Rao [jun...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 8:42 AM > To: users@kafka.apache.org > Subject: Re: Kafka Consumer Threads Stalled > > In that case, have you looked at > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/FAQ#FAQ-Myconsumerseemstohavestopped%2Cwhy%3F > ? > > Thanks, > > Jun > > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Drew Daugherty < > drew.daughe...@returnpath.com> wrote: > > > The problem is not the fact that the timeout exceptions are being thrown. > > We have tried with and without the timeout setting and, in both cases, > we > > end up with threads that are stalled and not consuming data. Thus the > > problem is consumers that are registered and not consuming and no > > rebalancing is done We suspected a problem with zookeeper but we have > run > > smoke and latency tests and got reasonable results. > > > > -drew > > > > Sent from Moxier Mail > > (http://www.moxier.com) > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> > > To: "users@kafka.apache.org" <users@kafka.apache.org> > > Sent: 8/13/2013 10:17 PM > > Subject: Re: Kafka Consumer Threads Stalled > > > > > > > > If you don't want to see ConsumerTimeoutException, just set > > consumer.timeout.ms to -1. If you do need consumer.timeout.ms larger > than > > 0, make sure that on ConsumerTimeoutException, your consumer thread > loops > > back and calls hasNext() on the iterator to resume the consumption. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jun > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Drew Daugherty < > > drew.daughe...@returnpath.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > We are using zookeeper 3.3.6 with kafka 0.7.2. We have a topic with 8 > > > partitions on each of 3 brokers that we are consuming with a consumer > > group > > > with multiple threads. We are using the following settings for our > > > consumers: > > > zk.connectiontimeout.ms=12000000 > > > fetch_size=52428800 > > > queuedchunks.max=6 > > > consumer.timeout.ms=5000 > > > > > > Our brokers have the following configuration: > > > socket.send.buffer=1048576 > > > socket.receive.buffer=1048576 > > > max.socket.request.bytes=104857600 > > > log.flush.interval=10000 > > > log.default.flush.interval.ms=1000 > > > log.default.flush.scheduler.interval.ms=1000 > > > log.retention.hours=4 > > > log.file.size=536870912 > > > enable.zookeeper=true > > > zk.connectiontimeout.ms=6000 > > > zk.sessiontimeout.ms=6000 > > > max.message.size=52428800 > > > > > > We are noticing that after the consumer runs for a short while, some > > > threads stop consuming and start throwing the following timeout > > exceptions: > > > kafka.consumer.ConsumerTimeoutException > > > at > > > kafka.consumer.ConsumerIterator.makeNext(ConsumerIterator.scala:66) > > > at > > > kafka.consumer.ConsumerIterator.makeNext(ConsumerIterator.scala:32) > > > at > > > > kafka.utils.IteratorTemplate.maybeComputeNext(IteratorTemplate.scala:59) > > > at > > kafka.utils.IteratorTemplate.hasNext(IteratorTemplate.scala:51) > > > > > > When this happens, message consumption on the affected partitions > doesn't > > > recover but stalls and the consumer offset remains frozen. The > > exceptions > > > also continue to be thrown in the logs as the thread logic logs the > error > > > then tries to create another iterator from the stream and consume from > > it. > > > We also notice that consumption tends to freeze on 2/3 brokers but > there > > > is one that always seems to keep the consumers fed. Are there settings > > or > > > logic we can use to avoid or recover from such exceptions? > > > > > > -drew > > > > > >
