Hi Guozhang,
Sorry for the misinformation. We have file sizes around 50 - 100 MB. So we
set *fetch.message.max.bytes* conservatively around 188743680.  Can you
please explain me the reason for this behavior?

Thanks,
Dinesh

On 13 January 2015 at 21:42, Guozhang Wang <wangg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dinesh,
>
> Your fetch.message.max.bytes is 188743680 < 155MB, but you said some
> messages can be as large as 180MB. Could you try to set it to be larger
> than, say 200MB and see if it helps?
>
> Guozhang
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 4:18 AM, dinesh kumar <dinesh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I am been facing some JAVA high level consumer related issues lately and
> > would like to understand more on this.
> >
> > We have 9 bare-metals (48 core, 250 GB, Terabytes of Hard disks) running
> > *Kafka
> > 0.8.2* and 5 independent VM (8 core, 60 GB) running zookeeper.
> >
> > I have a topic that has key as metadata and value as a file. The file can
> > be as large as *180 MB.* We have a topic with 90 partitions. Sometimes
> > there will be only one consumer consuming from the topic. When the
> consumer
> > group for my topic has a *lag in the range of 200's* and when I start a
> > consumer (no other consumer running before) there is *no data* coming
> > through to the consumer.
> >
> > Please find below my consumer parameters.
> >
> > "zookeeper.connect"                => <zookeepers>,
> > "group.id"                         => "default",
> > "consumer.timeout.ms"              => "-1",
> > "auto.offset.reset"                => "smallest",
> > "auto.commit.enable"               => "false",
> > "consumer.timeout.ms"          => "-1",
> > "zookeeper.session.timeout.ms" => "100000",
> > "zookeeper.connection.timeout.ms"  => "6000",
> > "zookeeper.sync.time.ms"           => "2000",
> > "rebalance.backoff.ms"             =>  "20000",
> > "rebalance.max.retries"            => "50"
> > "fetch.message.max.bytes"      => "188743680",
> > "fetch.size"                   => "18874368"
> >
> >
> >
> > This problem occurs only when the *auto.offset.reset *property is
> > *smallest.
> > *I am able to get data if the offset is largest. I tried using the
> *console
> > consumer* for the same topic and consumer group with *--from-beginning*
> > option, I can see the data getting printed. I looked into the
> > ConsoleConsumer code and I saw that there was no
> > *fetch.message.max.bytes *property
> > in the consumer option.
> >
> > So I removed the *fetch.message.max.bytes *from my code and the consumer
> > started working but was throwing exception when the message is large.
> >
> > So *fetch.message.max.bytes *seemed to be the problem but I cannot do
> > without it as my messages a big files. Can someone explain to me what is
> > the issue here? I also adjusted the *fetch.size *parameter according to
> my
> > max message size but it did not help.
> >
> >
> > To summerize, I would like to understand what is happening in the
> consumer
> > end when handling large lags with big *fetch.message.max.bytes. *
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dinesh
> >
>
>
>
> --
> -- Guozhang
>

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