Depending on how much data there is in those partitions it can take a while for reassignment to actually complete. You will need to use the --status-check-json-file option of the reassign partitions command to determine whether partition reassignment has completed or not.
Joel On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Kane Kane <kane.ist...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have 3 brokers and a topic with replication factor of 3. > Somehow all partitions ended up being on the same broker. > I've created topic with 3 brokers alive, and they didn't die since then. > > Even when i try to reassign it: > bin/kafka-reassign-partitions.sh --zookeeper > 10.80.42.147:2181--broker-list 0,1,2 --topics-to-move-json-file > ~/reassign.txt --execute > > The leader of all partitions after that is still the single broker (first > one). > This is how my json file looks like: > {"topics": > [{"topic": "perf1"}], > "version":1 > } > > The command reports success: > Successfully started reassignment of partitions Map([perf1,33] -> List(1, > 0, 2), [perf1,13] -> List(2, 0, 1), [perf1,28] -> List(2, 1, 0), [perf1,20] > -> List(0, 1, 2), [perf1,5] -> List(0, 2, 1), [perf1,14] -> List(0, 1, 2), > [perf1,39] -> List(1, 0, 2), [perf1,19] -> List(2, 0, 1), [perf1,25] -> > List(2, 0, 1), [perf1,43] -> List(2, 0, 1), [perf1,11] -> List(0, 2, 1), > [perf1,8] -> List(0, 1, 2), [perf1,22] -> List(2, 1, 0), [perf1,16] -> > List(2, 1, 0), [perf1,26] -> List(0, 1, 2), [perf1,41] -> List(0, 2, 1), > [perf1,9] -> List(1, 0, 2), [perf1,27] -> List(1, 0, 2), [perf1,44] -> > List(0, 1, 2), [perf1,34] -> List(2, 1, 0), [perf1,6] -> List(1, 2, 0), > [perf1,1] -> List(2, 0, 1), [perf1,37] -> List(2, 0, 1), [perf1,24] -> > List(1, 2, 0), [perf1,29] -> List(0, 2, 1), [perf1,32] -> List(0, 1, 2), > [perf1,7] -> List(2, 0, 1), [perf1,17] -> List(0, 2, 1), [perf1,36] -> > List(1, 2, 0), [perf1,0] -> List(1, 2, 0), [perf1,42] -> List(1, 2, 0), > [perf1,4] -> List(2, 1, 0), [perf1,10] -> List(2, 1, 0), [perf1,30] -> > List(1, 2, 0), [perf1,23] -> List(0, 2, 1), [perf1,18] -> List(1, 2, 0), > [perf1,3] -> List(1, 0, 2), [perf1,35] -> List(0, 2, 1), [perf1,31] -> > List(2, 0, 1), [perf1,12] -> List(1, 2, 0), [perf1,2] -> List(0, 1, 2), > [perf1,40] -> List(2, 1, 0), [perf1,38] -> List(0, 1, 2), [perf1,15] -> > List(1, 0, 2), [perf1,21] -> List(1, 0, 2)) > > But still nothing changes. I use ~/kafka-src/bin/kafka-topics.sh > --zookeeper 10.80.42.147:2181 --describe --topic perf1 to check leaders. > > Thanks.