Github user abhishekagarwal87 commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/818#issuecomment-151749882
For long running topologies using kafka spout, we have always ran into this
deadlock. It completely blocks the topology. Internally, we are already running
the storm with this patch.
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