We are running a Kafka Consumer in local mode using Spark Streaming, KafkaUtils.createDirectStream.
The job runs as expected, however once in a very long time time, I see the following exception. Wanted to check if others have faced a similar issue, and what are the right timeout parameters to change to avoid this issue. Job aborted due to stage failure: Task 5 in stage 30499.0 failed 1 times, most recent failure: Lost task 5.0 in stage 30499.0 (TID 203307, localhost): java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect0(Native Method) at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Net.java:457) at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Net.java:449) at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.connect(SocketChannelImpl.java:647) at kafka.network.BlockingChannel.connect(BlockingChannel.scala:57) at kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer.connect(SimpleConsumer.scala:44) at kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer.getOrMakeConnection(SimpleConsumer.scala:142) at kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer.kafka$consumer$SimpleConsumer$$sendRequest(SimpleConsumer.scala:69) at kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer$$anonfun$fetch$1$$anonfun$apply$mcV$sp$1.apply$mcV$sp(SimpleConsumer.scala:109) at kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer$$anonfun$fetch$1$$anonfun$apply$mcV$sp$1.apply(SimpleConsumer.scala:109) at kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer$$anonfun$fetch$1$$anonfun$apply$mcV$sp$1.apply(SimpleConsumer.scala:109) at kafka.metrics.KafkaTimer.time(KafkaTimer.scala:33) at kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer$$anonfun$fetch$1.apply$mcV$sp(SimpleConsumer.scala:108) at kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer$$anonfun$fetch$1.apply(SimpleConsumer.scala:108) at kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer$$anonfun$fetch$1.apply(SimpleConsumer.scala:108) at kafka.metrics.KafkaTimer.time(KafkaTimer.scala:33) at kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer.fetch(SimpleConsumer.scala:107) at org.apache.spark.streaming.kafka.KafkaRDD$KafkaRDDIterator.fetchBatch(KafkaRDD.scala:192) at org.apache.spark.streaming.kafka.KafkaRDD$KafkaRDDIterator.getNext(KafkaRDD.scala:208) at org.apache.spark.util.NextIterator.hasNext(NextIterator.scala:73) at scala.collection.Iterator$$anon$14.hasNext(Iterator.scala:388) at scala.collection.Iterator$$anon$11.hasNext(Iterator.scala:327) at scala.collection.Iterator$$anon$11.hasNext(Iterator.scala:327) at org.apache.spark.util.collection.ExternalSorter.insertAll(ExternalSorter.scala:189) at org.apache.spark.shuffle.sort.SortShuffleWriter.write(SortShuffleWriter.scala:64) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ShuffleMapTask.runTask(ShuffleMapTask.scala:73) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ShuffleMapTask.runTask(ShuffleMapTask.scala:41) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:89) at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:213) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) When this failure happens, the executor is not retried either. Any help appreciated. -S