I only need to delete topics when I want to start from clean state. I still unclear why leaders were not elected after create script printed message that topic was created successfully
Thanks, Vadim On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com>wrote: > I see the issue. I think the 0.8-beta included the script, but we later > removed it. We still don't have support for the delete topic feature, so I > recommend not using it. > > How long did you wait for the leaders to get elected before you attempted > to delete the topics? > > Thanks, > Neha > > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Vadim Keylis <vkeylis2...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > Hello Neha. The topics should of been available since I ran list-topics > > script 5 hours later after creating topics. > > I am reffering to kafka-delete-topic.sh script that I got from kafka git > > repository. > > > > Thanks, > > Vadim > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > As part of topic creation, the controller broker has to elect leader > for > > > each of the topics and this involves a few writes to zookeeper. So it > > might > > > take several seconds to complete leader election for 300 topics and > that > > > time would increase if you have many partitions per topic. > > > > > > Which delete partition script are you referring to? We don't have a > > delete > > > topic feature in Kafka yet. So you can only create more partitions, but > > not > > > delete them. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Neha > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Vadim Keylis <vkeylis2...@gmail.com > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > I ran command to create 300 topics sequentially. Kafka create topic > > > script > > > > return with topic created successfully message. However running > > > > kafka-list-topics.sh script showed to me that no leaders been > selected > > > and > > > > no servers listed in ISR. First inspection of the logs showed no > > obvious > > > > signs of the problem. After restarting kafka. I did a few restarts of > > > kafka > > > > service and its now showing that most partitions have brokers. > > > > > > > > Second issue is with delete partition script. I attempted to delete > > > topics > > > > to begin fresh start. Even those script says it deleted partition > > > > successfully, I still see no leader found exception. > > > > > > > > Any suggestions on whats going on and how to avoid in the future? > > > > > > > > > >
