The consumer only retries "rebalance.max.retries" times. Once it runs out of the retries, it needs to be restarted to consume again.
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Yu, Libo <libo...@citi.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > This is what we experienced recently: > Some zookeeper's issue made broker unavailable for a short period of time. > On the consumer side, this triggered rebalance and rebalanced failed after > four tries. > So while should we expect while the broker is not up? Should consumer keep > trying to rebalance or wait for the brokers to be brought back? Thanks. > > > > > > Regards, > > Libo > >
