Hi, I have 2 pretty unbalanced brokers running 0.8.1.1 and I'm trying to balance them (read: free disk space on the overloaded broker).
Is there a tool that will just rebalance everything? I couldn't find one, so I ran this: $ sh kafka-reassign-partitions.sh --broker-list 1 --zookeeper zk1.prod.sematext:3131 --reassignment-json-file /tmp/partition.json --execute This seems to have *copied* about half of the partitions of the topic specified in the given JSON file from broker 2 (source) to broker 1 (target). Good. I see this in broker 2 (source broker): [2014-05-31 19:24:59,994] INFO [ReplicaFetcherManager on broker 2] Removed fetcher for partitions [spm_new_cluster_free_system_topic,1] (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherManager) ... which looks promising.... but: My broker 2 (source) *still* has all partitions of the problematic topic. I thought it would remove the moved partitions from the source broker.... no? Thanks, Otis -- Performance Monitoring * Log Analytics * Search Analytics Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/
