Hi, I am trying to consume a 24-partition topic across 12 processes. Each process is using the simple consumer API, and each is being assigned two consumer threads. I have noticed when starting these processes that sometimes some of my processes are not being assigned any partitions, and no rebalance seems to ever be triggered, leaving some of the partitions unclaimed.
When I first tried deploying this yesterday, I noticed 8 of the 24 partitions, for 4 of the consumer processes, went unclaimed. Redeploying shortly later corrected this issue. I tried deploying again today, and now I see a different set of 4 processes not getting assigned partitions. The processes otherwise appear to be running normally, they are currently running in production and we are working to get the consumers quietly running before enabling them to do any work. I’m not sure if we might be looking at some sort of timing issue. Does anyone know what might be causing the issues we’re observing? Thanks, Dave
