How is that modified version different from 0.7.1? Did you take a thread dump and see what the offset commit thread was doing?
Thanks, Jun On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Raimar Falke <raimar.fa...@optivo.de>wrote: > Hello > > We are using a modified version of kafka 0.7.1 ( > https://github.com/optivo-org/kafka) > and had at least one case where the consumers of the group got events but > the offsets > were not written back to zookeeper. The consumers stopped updating the > offsets after > a release where the consumers of the group are each individually is > restarted. Here > a lot of rebalancing was taking place. After a further restart of all > consumers the > events were processed a second time. No related warning or error message > could be > found. > > Is this a known problem? What could be the cause for this? > > Tracing the code paths it seems weird, that > ZookeeperConsumerConnector.commitOffsets() > does not issue a warning if no offsets were written. Is it possible that a > rebalancing > was not finished and as such events were processed but without an > ownership no updates > take place? > > Raimar > > optivo GmbH > Wallstraße 16 > 10179 Berlin > > Telefon: 030 / 76 80 78 163 > Fax: 030 / 76 80 78 499 > > E-Mail: raimar.fa...@optivo.de > Website: http://www.optivo.de > > Handelsregister: HRB Berlin 88738 > Geschäftsführer: Peter Romianowski, Ulf Richter >