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Justin Jack commented on KAFKA-7641:
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This change will require a KIP as it is a public interface change. I'm willing
to go ahead with this if you'd like, as I know you're already working on
KIP-345.
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> Add `consumer.group.max.size` to cap consumer metadata size on broker
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> Key: KAFKA-7641
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-7641
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Boyang Chen
> Assignee: Boyang Chen
> Priority: Major
>
> In the JIRA discussion https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-7610,
> Jason concluded an edge case of current consumer protocol which could cause
> memory burst on broker side:
> ```the case we observed in practice was caused by a consumer that was slow to
> rejoin the group after a rebalance had begun. At the same time, there were
> new members that were trying to join the group for the first time. The
> request timeout was significantly lower than the rebalance timeout, so the
> JoinGroup of the new members kept timing out. The timeout caused a retry and
> the group size eventually become quite large because we could not detect the
> fact that the new members were no longer there.```
> Since many disorganized join group requests are spamming the group metadata,
> we should define a cap on broker side to avoid one consumer group from
> growing too large. So far I feel it's appropriate to introduce this as a
> server config since most times this value is only dealing with error
> scenarios, client users shouldn't worry about this config.
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