Hello, I’ve recently upgraded to storm and storm-kafka 0.9.2-incubating, replacing the https://github.com/wurstmeister/storm-kafka-0.8-plus spout I was using previously.
I have a large kafka log that I needed processed. I started my topology with storm.kafka.SpoutConfig spoutConfig = new SpoutConfig.... spoutConfig.forceFromStart = true; I then needed to make some tweaks in my application code and restarted the topology with spoutConfig.forceFromStart = false. Expecting to pick up where I left off in my kafka log. Instead the kafka spout started from the latest offset. Upon investigation I found this log message in my storm worker logs 2014-07-09 18:02:15 s.k.PartitionManager [INFO] Read last commit offset from zookeeper: 15266940; old topology_id: ef3f1f89-f64c-4947-b6eb-0c7fb9adb9ea - new topology_id: 5747dba6-c947-4c4f-af4a-4f50a84817bf 2014-07-09 18:02:15 s.k.PartitionManager [INFO] Last commit offset from zookeeper: 15266940 2014-07-09 18:02:15 s.k.PartitionManager [INFO] Commit offset 22092614 is more than 100000 behind, resetting to startOffsetTime=-2 2014-07-09 18:02:15 s.k.PartitionManager [INFO] Starting Kafka prd-use1c-pr-08-kafka-kamq-0004:4 from offset 22092614 Digging in the storm-kafka spout I found this line https://github.com/apache/incubator-storm/blob/master/external/storm-kafka/src/jvm/storm/kafka/PartitionManager.java#L95 To fix this problem I ended up setting my spout config like so spoutConf.maxOffsetBehind = Long.MAX_VALUE; Now finally to my question. Why would the kafka spout skip to the latest offset if the current offset is more then 100000 behind by default? This seems like a bad default value, the spout literally skipped over months of data without any warning. Are the core contributors open to accepting a pull request that would set the default to Long.MAX_VALUE? Thanks, Curtis Allen
