Yes, it’s similar. Replicas are evenly distribute among racks but not among brokers within rack even if no. of brokers are same in all racks.
Is there a workaround for this? On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 at 5:36 PM, Chia-Ping Tsai <chia7...@apache.org> wrote: > hi Abhishek > > Is this issue similar to the unbalance you had met? > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-10368 > > best, > chia-ping > > On 2024/03/23 21:06:59 Abhishek Singla wrote: > > Hi Team, > > > > Kafka version: 2_2.12-2.6.0 > > Zookeeper version: 3.8.x > > > > We have a Kafka Cluster of 12 brokers spread equally across 3 racks. > Topic > > gets auto created with default num.partitions=6 and replication_factor=3. > > It is observed that replicas are equally distributed over racks but > within > > the rack the replicas are randomly distributed like sometimes 3,3,0,0 or > > sometimes 3:2:1 or sometime 2,2,1,1 > > > > Is there a configuration to evenly distribute replicas across brokers > > within a rack, maybe some sort of round robin strategy 2,2,1,1? > > > > And also it is observed that over time 1 broker ends up having way more > > replicas across topics than the other broker in the same rack. Is there a > > config for even distribution of replicas across topics also? > > > > Regards, > > Abhishek Singla > > >
