No, it does not matter, since that has no bearing on TCP connectivity. Philip
On Sep 20, 2013, at 10:39 AM, Suchi Amalapurapu <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes I understand that. I am letting the producer/consumer use zookeeper to > discover brokers. > I can clearly see in the logs(brokers) that both the brokers create a new > topic log for the same topic. > > The brokers are in different availability zones. Does that matter? > Suchi > > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Philip O'Toole <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Seems to me you are confusing partitions and brokers. Partition count has >> nothing to do with the number of brokers to which a message a sent -- just >> the number of partitions into which that message will be split when it gets >> to a broker. >> >> You need to explicitly set the destination brokers in the Producer, not via >> setting "partition" count. >> >> Philip >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Suchi Amalapurapu <[email protected] >>> wrote: >> >>> My current setup has 2 brokers, multiple topics, each topic with 1 >>> partition, kafka 0.7.1 >>> Some topics are logged onto multiple brokers inspite of partitions set to >>> 1. Kafka 0.7.1 does not have replication turned on. >>> Why are the messages being logged onto multiple brokers when the number >> of >>> partitions is set to 1? >>> I have a consumer with parallelism set to 1 and its missing some of these >>> messages. >>> Suchi >>
