Possibly. I see evidence that its being stopped / started every 30 seconds in same cases (due to my code). It's entirely possible that I have a race, too, in that 2 separate pieces of code could be triggering such a stop / start.
Gives me something to track down. Thank you!! On Jun 25, 2013, at 12:45 PM, "Jun Rao" <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > This typically only happens when the consumerConnector is shut down. Are > you restarting the consumerConnector often? > > Thanks, > > Jun > > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Hargett, Phil < > phil.harg...@mirror-image.com> wrote: > >> Seeing this exception a LOT (3-4 times per second, same log topic). >> >> I'm using external code to feed data to about 50 different log topics over >> a cluster of 3 Kafka 0.8 brokers. There are 3 ZooKeeper instances as well, >> all of this is running on EC2. My application creates a high-level >> consumer (1 per topic) to consumer data from each and do further processing. >> >> The problem is this exception is in the high-level consumer, so my code >> has no way of knowing that it's become stuck. >> >> This exception does not always appear, but as far as I can tell, once this >> happens, the only cure is to restart my application's process. >> >> I saw this in 0.8 built from source about 1 week ago, and also am seeing >> it today after pulling the latest 0.8 sources and rebuilding Kafka. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Failed to find leader for Set([topic6,0]): java.lang.NullPointerException >> at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient$2.call(ZkClient.java:416) >> at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient$2.call(ZkClient.java:413) >> at >> org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.retryUntilConnected(ZkClient.java:675) >> at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.getChildren(ZkClient.java:413) >> at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.getChildren(ZkClient.java:409) >> at >> kafka.utils.ZkUtils$.getChildrenParentMayNotExist(ZkUtils.scala:438) >> at kafka.utils.ZkUtils$.getAllBrokersInCluster(ZkUtils.scala:75) >> at >> kafka.consumer.ConsumerFetcherManager$LeaderFinderThread.doWork(ConsumerFetcherManager.scala:63) >> at kafka.utils.ShutdownableThread.run(ShutdownableThread.scala:51) >>