Mark, We have similar needs and have added calls to our code to stop consumption, move the offset in ZK, then resume (we use it to go back in time).
hmb. On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Mark Grabois <mark.grab...@trendrr.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I know the topic of consumer offsets has come up frequently on the list, > how it is not possible to control the offset without using SimpleConsumer. > I would like to be able to reset all consumer offsets to "largest" (so that > consumption may start with the latest produced messages) when consumption > begins to lag behind our data feed. Is there a good way to do it with > zookeeper (since we will be using multiple consumers), without restarting > consumer? > > Thank you, > Mark -- Hisham Mardam-Bey [ Director of Engineering ] [ Mate1 Inc. ] A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? -=[ Codito Ergo Sum ]=-