We don't expect to lose data in that case. So, this sounds like a bug. Do you see any other error/warn in broker log around the time the data is lost?
Thanks, Jun On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Oliver Dain <od...@3cinteractive.com>wrote: > Hi Neha, > > Thanks for the reply. I do not see the ³No broker in ISR² message. If my > original diagnosis was correct (that there were at least 2 replicas alive > for the topic at all times) then I believe this is expected, right? I > gather this makes it more likely that we¹ve hit KAFKA-1193?? If so, is > there any workaround and/or an ETA for a fix? > > Thanks, > Oliver > > > > > On 3/27/14, 5:18 AM, "Neha Narkhede" <neha.narkh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >It is possible that you are hitting KAFKA-1193, but I'm not sure. Do you > >see the following log line when you observe data loss - > > > >"No broker in ISR is alive for ... There's potential data loss." > > > >Thanks, > >Neha > > > > > >On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Oliver Dain > ><od...@3cinteractive.com>wrote: > > > >> I just saw https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1193 which seems > >> like it could be the cause of this. Does that sound right? Is there a > >>patch > >> we can test? Any date/time when this is expected to be fixed? > >> > >> From: New User <od...@3cinteractive.com<mailto:od...@3cinteractive.com > >> > >> Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 at 11:59 AM > >> To: "users@kafka.apache.org<mailto:users@kafka.apache.org>" < > >> users@kafka.apache.org<mailto:users@kafka.apache.org>> > >> Subject: data loss on replicated topic > >> > >> My company currently testing Kafka for throughput and fault tolerance. > >> We've set up a cluster of 5 Kafka brokers and are publishing to a topic > >> with replication factor 3 and 100 partitions. We are publishing with > >> request.required.acks == -1 (e.g. All ISR replicas must ACK before the > >> message is considered sent). If a publication fails, we retry it > >> indefinitely until it succeeds. We ran a test over a weekend in which we > >> published messages as fast as we could (from a single publisher). Each > >> message has a unique ID so we can ensure that all messages are saved by > >> Kafka at least once at the end of the test. We have a simple script, run > >> via cron, that kills one broker (chosen at random) once every other hour > >> (killed via "kill -9"). The broker is then revived 16 minutes after it > >>was > >> killed. At the end of the weekend we ran a script to pull all data from > >>all > >> partitions and then verify that all messages were persisted by Kafka. > >>For > >> the most part, the results are very good. We can sustain about 3k > >> message/second with almost no data loss. > >> > >> Of the roughly 460 million records we produced over 48 hours we lost > >>only > >> 7 records. But, I don't think we should have lost any record. All of the > >> lost records were produced at almost exactly the time one of the brokers > >> was killed (down to the second which is the granularity of our logs). > >>Note > >> that we're producing around 3k messages/second and we killed brokers > >>many > >> times over the 48 hour period. Only twice did we see data loss: once we > >> lost 4 records and once we lost 3. I have checked the Kafka logs and > >>there > >> are some expected error messages from the surviving brokers that look > >>like: > >> > >> > >> [2014-03-19 02:21:12,088] ERROR [ReplicaFetcherThread-1-5], Error in > >>fetch > >> Name: FetchRequest; Version: 0; CorrelationId: 3491511; ClientId: > >> ReplicaFetcherThread-1-5; ReplicaId: 1; MaxWait: 500 ms; MinBytes: 1 > >>bytes; > >> RequestInfo: [load_test,20] -> > >> PartitionFetchInfo(521319,1048576),[load_test,74] -> > >> PartitionFetchInfo(559017,1048576),[load_test,14] -> > >> PartitionFetchInfo(420539,1048576),[load_test,0] -> > >> PartitionFetchInfo(776869,1048576),[load_test,34] -> > >> PartitionFetchInfo(446435,1048576),[load_test,94] -> > >> PartitionFetchInfo(849943,1048576),[load_test,40] -> > >> PartitionFetchInfo(241876,1048576),[load_test,80] -> > >> PartitionFetchInfo(508778,1048576),[load_test,60] -> > >> PartitionFetchInfo(81314,1048576),[load_test,54] -> > >> PartitionFetchInfo(165798,1048576) (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherThread) > >> > >> java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused > >> > >> at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect0(Native Method) > >> > >> at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Net.java:465) > >> > >> at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Net.java:457) > >> > >> at > >>sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.connect(SocketChannelImpl.java:670) > >> > >> at > >>kafka.network.BlockingChannel.connect(BlockingChannel.scala:57) > >> > >> at > >>kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer.connect(SimpleConsumer.scala:44) > >> > >> at > >>kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer.reconnect(SimpleConsumer.scala:57) > >> > >> at > >> kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer.liftedTree1$1(SimpleConsumer.scala:79) > >> > >> at > >> > >>kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer.kafka$consumer$SimpleConsumer$$sendRequest( > >>SimpleConsumer.scala:71) > >> > >> at > >> > >>kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer$$anonfun$fetch$1$$anonfun$apply$mcV$sp$1.ap > >>ply$mcV$sp(SimpleConsumer.scala:109) > >> > >> at > >> > >>kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer$$anonfun$fetch$1$$anonfun$apply$mcV$sp$1.ap > >>ply(SimpleConsumer.scala:109) > >> > >> at > >> > >>kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer$$anonfun$fetch$1$$anonfun$apply$mcV$sp$1.ap > >>ply(SimpleConsumer.scala:109) > >> > >> at kafka.metrics.KafkaTimer.time(KafkaTimer.scala:33) > >> > >> at > >> > >>kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer$$anonfun$fetch$1.apply$mcV$sp(SimpleConsume > >>r.scala:108) > >> > >> at > >> > >>kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer$$anonfun$fetch$1.apply(SimpleConsumer.scala > >>:108) > >> > >> at > >> > >>kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer$$anonfun$fetch$1.apply(SimpleConsumer.scala > >>:108) > >> > >> at kafka.metrics.KafkaTimer.time(KafkaTimer.scala:33) > >> > >> at kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer.fetch(SimpleConsumer.scala:107) > >> > >> at > >> > >>kafka.server.AbstractFetcherThread.processFetchRequest(AbstractFetcherThr > >>ead.scala:96) > >> > >> at > >> > >>kafka.server.AbstractFetcherThread.doWork(AbstractFetcherThread.scala:88) > >> > >> at > >>kafka.utils.ShutdownableThread.run(ShutdownableThread.scala:51) > >> > >> I have verified that all the partitions mentioned in these messages > >>(e.g. > >> The above mentions partitions 0, 34, 94, etc.) had the newly killed > >>node as > >> the leader. I believe that means that the other 4 brokers were alive and > >> running without issues. There are no other log messages that indicate > >>any > >> other broker communication issues. > >> > >> As I understand it, this scenario shouldn't cause any data loss since at > >> least 4/5 of the brokers were alive and healthy at all times. Is there > >>any > >> way to explain the data loss? Perhaps a known bug in 0.8.1? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Oliver > >> > >> > >