Dana Powers created KAFKA-3878: ---------------------------------- Summary: Support exponential backoff for broker reconnect attempts Key: KAFKA-3878 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3878 Project: Kafka Issue Type: Improvement Components: clients, network Reporter: Dana Powers
The client currently uses a constant backoff policy, configured via 'reconnect.backoff.ms' . To reduce network load during longer broker outages, it would be useful to support an optional exponentially increasing backoff policy. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)