Github user jfenc91 commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/1679#discussion_r79662312 --- Diff: external/storm-kafka-client/src/main/java/org/apache/storm/kafka/spout/KafkaSpout.java --- @@ -479,16 +487,17 @@ public OffsetAndMetadata findNextCommitOffset() { KafkaSpoutMessageId nextCommitMsg = null; // this is a convenience variable to make it faster to create OffsetAndMetadata for (KafkaSpoutMessageId currAckedMsg : ackedMsgs) { // complexity is that of a linear scan on a TreeMap - if ((currOffset = currAckedMsg.offset()) == initialFetchOffset || currOffset == nextCommitOffset + 1) { // found the next offset to commit + if ((currOffset = currAckedMsg.offset()) == nextCommitOffset + 1) { // found the next offset to commit found = true; nextCommitMsg = currAckedMsg; nextCommitOffset = currOffset; } else if (currAckedMsg.offset() > nextCommitOffset + 1) { // offset found is not continuous to the offsets listed to go in the next commit, so stop search LOG.debug("topic-partition [{}] has non-continuous offset [{}]. It will be processed in a subsequent batch.", tp, currOffset); break; } else { - LOG.debug("topic-partition [{}] has unexpected offset [{}].", tp, currOffset); - break; + //Received a redundant ack. Ignore and continue processing. --- End diff -- I saw this a couple of times before I figured it out. I have not taken the time to reproduce this in a toy/test case, but given the error message this is clearly a storm or storm-kafka-client issue. I got to this state in about 30 minutes of running a topology processing 800k-300k tuples a minute with about 10s latency. The input to the topology was on the order of 2k-10k tuples per minute with a bolt that separated each input into multiple tuples. At startup there was a high amount of failures after the separation (I was making requests against an unwarmed ELB). I would guess that that is enough to reproduce with random data/failures.
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