Hi, I think there is no difference between shutting down a consumer or killing a consumer. For the whole system, it only means a consumer has left for some reason which is not interested.
So if you kill a consumer, some consumer in the same consumer group should take over and consume messages. Correct me if I am wrong. On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Jürgen Ziegler <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm playing around with the kafka high level java api. > > If I have multiple consumers in a group, consuming the same topic with a > single partition, only one consumer will receive messages, as is expected. > When shutting down the consumer, another consumer will automatically > consume the messages. > If the picked consumer thread dies (killed, not shutdown!), is it the > expected behavior that no other consumer will consume the leftover > messages? > That's at least what I'm experiencing, which seems weird to me. > > Thanks! >
