GitHub user tedyu opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/4108
KAFKA-6101 Reconnecting to broker does not exponentially backoff You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/tedyu/kafka trunk Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/4108.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #4108 ---- ---- ---