Hi,
You are correct. The others will remain idle. This is why you generally want to have at least the same number of partitions as consumers. Cheers, Jens – Skickat från Mailbox On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 2:34 AM, Jason J. W. Williams <jasonjwwilli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to make sure I understand this statement in the docs: > "Each broker partition is consumed by a single consumer within a given > consumer group. The consumer must establish its ownership of a given > partition before any consumption can begin." > If I have: > * a topic with 1 partition > * subscribe a consumer group to the topic > * the consumer group has 10 consumers belonging to it > Will only 1 consumer of the 10 ever receive messages from the topic, and > the other 9 remain idle? Or does this mean only 1 consumer at a time from > the group will be consuming...in a round-robin fashion? > -J
