Github user jfenc91 commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/1679#discussion_r79480290 --- Diff: external/storm-kafka-client/src/main/java/org/apache/storm/kafka/spout/KafkaSpout.java --- @@ -266,26 +266,32 @@ private void doSeekRetriableTopicPartitions() { if (offsetAndMeta != null) { kafkaConsumer.seek(rtp, offsetAndMeta.offset() + 1); // seek to the next offset that is ready to commit in next commit cycle } else { - kafkaConsumer.seekToEnd(toArrayList(rtp)); // Seek to last committed offset + kafkaConsumer.seek(rtp, acked.get(rtp).committedOffset + 1); // Seek to last committed offset } } } // ======== emit ========= private void emit() { - emitTupleIfNotEmitted(waitingToEmit.next()); + //Keep trying to send a tuple when requested + while(!emitTupleIfNotEmitted(waitingToEmit.next()) && waitingToEmit.hasNext()) --- End diff -- I was having issues with the spout reaching the max spout pending limit. Although it is apparent now that there are other contributing factors. So I will go back to the simpler way here. No need to overcomplicate.
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