I ran into similar issue. I configured 3 disks, but partitions were
allocated only to 2 disks (disk2 and disk3). Then I found that the left out
disk (disk1) was already hosting lot number of other partitions from
different topics. So may be partition allocation happens based on how many
partitions
Andrew Otto,
This is a known problem (and which I have run into as well). Generally, my
solution has been to increase the number of partitions such that the
granularity of partitions is much higher than the number of disks, such
that its more unlikely for the imbalance to be significant.
I
I have a similar issue, let me know how it goes. :)
-Original Message-
From: Andrew Otto [mailto:ao...@wikimedia.org]
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 3:12 PM
To: users@kafka.apache.org
Subject: Kafka partitions unbalanced
Hi all,
I’ve recently noticed that our broker log.dirs are using
