Hi Alex, Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
What I conclude from your answer is that a consumer is only loyal to the partition it is glued to. It cannot steal work from other partitions. Is the understanding correct? Do we anticipate work stealing in any of the future releases ? Regards Gagan On Tue 23 Apr, 2019, 10:44 AM Alex Woolford, <a...@woolford.io> wrote: > Hey Gagan, > > If there are more partitions than consumers in a group, some consumers are > allocated multiple partitions. > > If there are no more messages for the partitions that have been allocated > to a consumer, that consumer will continue to poll until messages show up > in those partitions. It won't start consuming messages from partitions that > have been assigned to another consumer. > > HTH, > > Alex > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 10:57 PM Gagan Sabharwal <gagan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi team, > > > > If a consumer group has 5 subscribers to a topic which has 5 partitions, > do > > the subscribers steal work if they are done with their own? > > > > Regards > > Gagan > > >
