Follow-up question:
3. If this is indeed an issue, how does it happen? What makes the broker go into that state? On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 10:14 AM Kostas Christidis <kos...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm reasonably certain I've bumped into a case where a broker in my > cluster is serving bad metadata to clients, making them think that a > certain partition is leaderless. > > This is similar to what's described here (end of the post): > https://github.com/Shopify/sarama/issues/665#issuecomment-223128098 > > Two questions: > > 1. Has anyone bumped into this case? > 2. How can I force that broker to flush that cached metadata? (It > keeps serving it for days now.)