Multiple Processes Consuming from Same GroupID

2013-09-11 Thread prashant amar
A Design Question that needs verification: 1. Created a topic T with 'n' partitions. 2. Created a consumer group process with 'n + 1' threads subscribing from topic 'T' with a groupID 'y' 3. Added another consumer group process with 'n + 1' threads subscribing from same topic 'T' with same

Re: Multiple Processes Consuming from Same GroupID

2013-09-11 Thread Neha Narkhede
I think you are hitting this - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/FAQ#FAQ-Whysomeoftheconsumersinaconsumergroupneverreceiveanymessage%3F Let us know if we can improve the documentation to make it clearer. Thanks, Neha On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 5:28 PM, prashant amar

Re: Multiple Processes Consuming from Same GroupID

2013-09-11 Thread prashant amar
Also noticed another issue Specified below is the current configuration Topic1 - n Partitions - 2 Consumer Groups (gr1 and gr2) Topic2 - n Partitions - 2 Consumer Groups (gr1 and gr2) Notice that I have used the same naming convention on the consumer group set i.e. 'gr1' and 'gr2' are consumer

Re: Multiple Processes Consuming from Same GroupID

2013-09-11 Thread Jun Rao
This means the broker somehow closed the socket connection. Anything in the broker log around the same time? Thanks, Jun On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 6:07 PM, prashant amar amasin...@gmail.com wrote: Also noticed another issue Specified below is the current configuration Topic1 - n Partitions

Re: Multiple Processes Consuming from Same GroupID

2013-09-11 Thread prashant amar
From the broker log: INFO Reconnect due to socket error: (kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer) java.nio.channels.ClosedChannelException at kafka.network.BlockingChannel.send(BlockingChannel.scala:89) at kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer.liftedTree1$1(SimpleConsumer.scala:72) at

Re: Multiple Processes Consuming from Same GroupID

2013-09-11 Thread prashant amar
I usually get this exception when I define 2 partitions .. Current configuration : Single Topic - 4 partitions 1 Consumers Group - 10 Threads On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:24 PM, prashant amar amasin...@gmail.com wrote: From the broker log: INFO Reconnect due to socket error: