Neha is right, though it is a little interesting that consumers did not achieve a concensus after four retries have exhasuted, for just an event of broker-failure.
Could you check your consumer log searching for "begin rebalance" and check what caused these rebalances to fail? Guozhang On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 > > > > > -- -- Guozhang
