Hey Steven, That sounds like a bug. I think we fixed a few producer high cpu issues since the beta, I wonder if you could repeat the same test with the 0.8.2. final release?
-Jay On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Steven Wu <stevenz...@gmail.com> wrote: > actually, my local test can reproduce the issue although not immediately. > seems to happen after a few mins. I enabled TRACE level logging. here seems > to be the tight loop. you can see that there are two metadata requests in > one milli-seconds. > > kafka-producer-network-thread | foo 20:34:32,626 TRACE NetworkClient:301 - > Ignoring empty metadata response with correlation id 360185. > kafka-producer-network-thread | foo 20:34:32,626 DEBUG NetworkClient:369 - > Trying to send metadata request to node -2 > kafka-producer-network-thread | foo 20:34:32,626 DEBUG NetworkClient:374 - > Sending metadata request ClientRequest(expectResponse=true, payload=null, > > request=RequestSend(header={api_key=3,api_version=0,correlation_id=360186,client_id=foo}, > body={topics=[]})) to node -2 > kafka-producer-network-thread | foo 20:34:32,626 TRACE NetworkClient:301 - > Ignoring empty metadata response with correlation id 360186. > kafka-producer-network-thread | foo 20:34:32,626 DEBUG NetworkClient:369 - > Trying to send metadata request to node -2 > > > On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Steven Wu <stevenz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > We have observed high cpu and high network traffic problem when > > 1) cluster (0.8.1.1) has no topic > > 2) KafkaProducer (0.8.2-beta) object is created without sending any > traffic > > > > We have observed such problem twice. In both cases, problem went away > > immediately after one/any topic is created. > > > > Is this a known issue? Just want to check with the community first before > > I spend much time to reproduce it. > > > > I couldn't reproduce the issue with similar setup with unit test code in > > IDE. start two brokers with no topic locally on my laptop. create a > > KafkaProducer object without sending any msgs. but I only tested with > > 0.8.2-beta for both broker and producer. > > > > Thanks, > > Steven > > >