Hi Vaibhav, Yes, that is the behavior by design. The parallelism on the consumers is limited by the number of partitions for the topics that they are subscribed to.
Thanks, Neha On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Vaibhav Puranik <vpura...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > We have a topic with three partitions - one on each broker (Kafka 0.7.1). > Using ConsumerConnector I noticed that I can consume messages from three > consumers at most. When I start fourth one, one of the older one stops. > > Is this as designed? If I want more parallelism, do I need to increase > number of partitions? > > Regards, > Vaibhav > GumGum
