Partition is different from replicas. A topic can have one or more partitions and each partition can have one or more replicas. A consumer consumes data at partition level. In other words, a consumer gets the same data no matter how many replicas are there.
When you say the consumer only gets half of the messages, do you mean that it gets half of the messages that are produced? You may want to take a look at the consumer example in http://kafka.apache.org/08/api.html Thanks, Jun On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Rob Withers <reefed...@gmail.com> wrote: > Running a consumer group (createStreams()), pointing to the zookeeper and > with the topic and 1 consumer thread, results in only half the messages > being consumed. The topic was auto-created, with a replication factor of > 2, > but the producer was configured to produce to 2 brokers and so 4 partitions > resulted. Are half getting sent to one leader, in one broker, and the > other > half getting sent to another leader, in the other broker, but the consumer > stream is only reading from one leader from the zk? Shouldn't there only > be > one leader? > > > > thanks, > > rob > > > >
