Hi， We are using kafka 0.7.2. The situation is a little complicated:
1. We use Java API and multi-thread to send logs to kafka. (like 16 threads). Each thread contain its own kafka.javaapi.producer.Producer object. 2. There is one topic which the partition of is set to 4. we use random partition to send. 3. We generate messages of this topic at speed of 100 per second, so each thread only gets several logs per seconds. But we find the 4 partition gets unbalanced data. partition 0 gets logs 10 times more than partition 1 ,2 and 3. Partition 1 , 2 , 3 gets nearly equal messages. after that, we set threads to 1, this unbalanced phenomenon vanished. we are not sure what happened under the java api of Producer. Could any one explain it ? Or is it necessary to generate new kafka.javaapi.producer.Producer object in each thread? I hear the kafka.javaapi.producer.Producer class is thread safe, but I don't know if 1 producer object can handle large throughput? THANKS -- *Best Regards Xiang Helin*
