We have experienced the same issue and are still trying to figure out the cause. On Aug 25, 2012 1:29 PM, "Ke Ren" <k...@spaceapegames.com> wrote:
> Hi guys, > > I am running a kafka instance and a zookeeper instance on the same ec2 > instance. I have 2 consumer groups on the same topic. They work fine for > few days but one of the consumers keeps stopping after few days. I can't > see any exception in my application logs or kafka log. The thread of the > stopping consumer is still running but consumer can't receive any message. > Even I restart my application and it's still the same. I have to restart > zookeeper and kafka to make it back to normal. > > I used the following tool suggested by kafka docs and found owner is null > after consumer stops working. also its consumer offset won't change any > more. > > bin/kafka-run-class.sh kafka.tools.ConsumerOffsetChecker --group mygroup > --zkconnect 127.0.0.1:2181 --topic mytopic > > It's very similar with > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-kafka-users/201207.mbox/%3c4ff59b1a.3080...@conduit.com%3E > > Any ideas about it? > > Thanks > > Ke >
