That was the problem. Thanks Jun! -Robert
> On Oct 21, 2013, at 9:25 PM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Did you set the socket timeout to be larger than the maxWait time in the > fetch request? > > Thanks, > > Jun > > >> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Robert W <laver...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I notice that when using the SimpleConsumer javaapi and trying to consume >> from an existing topic and partition that has never been written to before, >> I get a SocketTimeoutException. Is there a way around this? I'm using >> kafka-0.8.0 beta1. >> >> Thanks, >> -Robert >>
