The behavior that you described is explained here - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/FAQ#FAQ-Whyisdatanotevenlydistributedamongpartitionswhenapartitioningkeyisnotspecified ?
Thanks, Neha On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Abhinav Anand <ab.rv...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am using the kafka producer 0.8. Each producer seem to be sending > messages only to a specific broker until metadata refresh. Also I find each > producer thread connected to only one broker at once. > > I had read that producer send messages in round robin fashion. Is there > some specific configuration to enable round robin message delivery ? > > -- > Abhinav Anand >