Github user hmcl commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/1924#discussion_r99932405 --- Diff: external/storm-kafka-client/src/main/java/org/apache/storm/kafka/spout/KafkaSpoutConfig.java --- @@ -329,11 +328,13 @@ private Builder(Builder<?, ?> builder, SerializableDeserializer<K> keyDes, Class this.offsetCommitPeriodMs = offsetCommitPeriodMs; return this; } - + /** * Defines the max number of polled offsets (records) that can be pending commit, before another poll can take place. * Once this limit is reached, no more offsets (records) can be polled until the next successful commit(s) sets the number - * of pending offsets bellow the threshold. The default is {@link #DEFAULT_MAX_UNCOMMITTED_OFFSETS}. + * of pending offsets below the threshold. The default is {@link #DEFAULT_MAX_UNCOMMITTED_OFFSETS}. + * Note that this limit can in some cases be exceeded, but no partition will exceed this limit by more than 2*maxPollRecords. --- End diff -- Agree
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