Sadly it's not easily reproducible, it seems rather random while we're starting 
large numbers of consumer processes. Out of the 300 or so we restarted during 
our last release, I saw this happen to 3 of them. And we stagger our restarts 
in groups of 100.   

--  
Ian Friedman


On Thursday, September 5, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Jun Rao wrote:

> Could you reproduce this easily?
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Jun
>  
>  
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Ian Friedman <i...@flurry.com 
> (mailto:i...@flurry.com)> wrote:
>  
> > It shouldn't be, no… it returns an ImmutableMap..
> >  
> > setTopicMap(ImmutableMap.of(KafkaLogQueuer.sKafkaDataLogPathsTopic, 1));
> >  
> > --
> > Ian Friedman
> >  
> >  
> > On Wednesday, September 4, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Jun Rao wrote:
> >  
> > > What createMessageStreams() returns should match what's in the input. Is
> > it
> > > possible for getTopicMap() to return an empty map?
> > >  
> > > Thanks,
> > >  
> > > Jun
> > >  
> > >  
> > > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Ian Friedman <i...@flurry.com 
> > > (mailto:i...@flurry.com) (mailto:
> > i...@flurry.com (mailto:i...@flurry.com))> wrote:
> > >  
> > > > Hey gang, I have a strange intermittent issue with our 0.7.2 consumers
> > > > that is perpelxing me:
> > > >  
> > > > It seems like, sometimes very infrequently, when restarting our
> > Consumer
> > > > fleet, some consumers threads just fail to start. The consumer
> > >  
> >  
> > connector
> > > > itself starts fine, and seems to be involved in subsequent rebalances,
> > >  
> >  
> > but
> > > > based on the logging I'm seeing, it looks like our one call to
> > > > ConsumerConnector.createMessageStreams is returning an empty map.
> > > >  
> > > > Is that something that should happen normally and should we be
> > retrying in
> > > > our calling code? Our consumer code looks like this:
> > > >  
> > > > Map<String, List<KafkaStream<Message>>> topicMessageStreams =
> > > > fConsumerConnector.createMessageStreams( getTopicMap() );
> > > >  
> > > > for( Map.Entry<String, List<KafkaStream<Message>>> entry :
> > > > topicMessageStreams.entrySet() )
> > > > {
> > > > final String topicName = entry.getKey();
> > > > log.info (http://log.info)( "starting stream for topic: " + topicName
> > > >  
> > >  
> >  
> > );
> > > > final KafkaStream<Message> stream = entry.getValue().get(0);
> > > >  
> > > > ….
> > > >  
> > > > Are we doing anything dumb here? In the case I described, we're never
> > > > getting the "starting stream for topic: " message in our log output,
> > > >  
> > >  
> >  
> > so my
> > > > only guess is that createMessageStreams is returning an empty map.
> > > >  
> > > > Thanks in advance guys!
> > > >  
> > > > --
> > > > Ian Friedman
> > > >  
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