Thanks for the reply, yeah that explains the auto restart part, still not clear 
why it retries 4 times and stop

I did start with the official Kafka spout, totally doesn't work for me, loses 
message, and constantly restart worker with timed-out

Are there someone else also using HolmesNL spout? Wondering how you guys deal 
with failed tuple retry



> On Nov 26, 2014, at 13:59, Harsha <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>  
> If your bolt hanged it will cause workers not to send heartbeats and 
> supervisor.worker.timeout.secs trigger causing workers to be killed and 
> restarted. Did you try using 
> https://github.com/apache/storm/tree/master/external/storm-kafka 
> -Harsha
>  
>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014, at 01:40 PM, Hefeng Yuan wrote:
>> Hello, 
>>  
>> I’m trying to us HolmesNL/kafka-spout, it worked pretty well for happy path, 
>> however, when tuple fails (e.g. _collector.fail(input) gets called in bolt), 
>> it seems like only retry 3 or 4 times, and then hang there, until the 
>> supervisor.worker.timeout.secs reaches, and topology got restarted.
>> Just wondering where is this number of retried controlled, and also, since 
>> the tuple already fail, why would it still trigger 
>> supervisor.worker.timeout.secs?
>>  
>> Thanks,
>> Hefeng
>  

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