Given that you said you removed the log directories, and provided that when you did the rmr on Zookeeper it was to the “/brokers/topics/(topic name)” path, you did the right things for a manual deletion. It sounds like you may have a consumer (or other client) that is recreating the topic. Do you have auto topic creation enabled?
-Todd On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 8:25 AM, Tim Visher <tim.vis...@gmail.com> wrote: > I did all of that because setting delete.topic.enable=true wasn't > effective. We set that across every broker, restarted them, and then > deleted the topic, and it was still stuck in existence. > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Ali Akhtar <ali.rac...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > You need to also delete / restart zookeeper, its probably storing the > > topics there. (Or yeah, just enable it and then delete the topic) > > > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 9:09 PM, Rodrigo Sandoval < > > rodrigo.madfe...@gmail.com > > > wrote: > > > > > Why did you do all those things instead of just setting > > > delete.topic.enable=true? > > > > > > On Dec 9, 2016 13:40, "Tim Visher" <tim.vis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > > > > > I'm really confused at the moment. We created a topic with brokers > set > > to > > > > delete.topic.enable=false. > > > > > > > > We now need to delete that topic. To do that we shut down all the > > > brokers, > > > > deleted everything under log.dirs and logs.dir on all the kafka > > brokers, > > > > `rmr`ed the entire chroot that kafka was storing things under in > > > zookeeper, > > > > and then brought kafka back up. > > > > > > > > After doing all that, the topic comes back, every time. > > > > > > > > What can we do to delete that topic? > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > In Christ, > > > > > > > > Timmy V. > > > > > > > > http://blog.twonegatives.com/ > > > > http://five.sentenc.es/ -- Spend less time on mail > > > > > > > > > > -- *Todd Palino* Staff Site Reliability Engineer Data Infrastructure Streaming linkedin.com/in/toddpalino
