Github user hmcl commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/1924#discussion_r99641026 --- Diff: external/storm-kafka-client/src/main/java/org/apache/storm/kafka/spout/KafkaSpout.java --- @@ -289,6 +293,13 @@ private void doSeekRetriableTopicPartitions() { kafkaConsumer.seek(rtp, acked.get(rtp).getCommittedOffset() + 1); // Seek to last committed offset } } + + if(!retriableTopicPartitions.isEmpty()) { + //Pause other partitions for this poll so maxUncommittedPartitions isn't exceeded by too much --- End diff -- I am a bit confused about this. When can it be exceeded? By how much? This should be a deterministic number. I read your comment in the email thread about maxSpoutPending. Is this related to that ?
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