Joel. How do you guys do kafka service shutdown and startup?
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Joel Koshy <jjkosh...@gmail.com> wrote: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Replication+tools > has more details. The ShutdownBroker tool does not return anything. > i.e., it does not exit with a System.exit code to pass back to a > shell. it only logs if controlled shutdown was complete or not. You > will need to configure the number of shutdown retries and retry > interval suitably for the controlled shutdown to complete. E.g., if > you have a very large number of partitions led by a broker it may take > more time to do a controlled shutdown on that broker (because leaders > need to be moved). (This yet another reason why we recommend that you > maintain even distribution of leaders - this can be accomplished by > running the PreferredReplicaLeaderElection command.) > > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Vadim Keylis <vkeylis2...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > We have deployed kafka 0.8 beta1. It was my understanding that > > ShutdownBroker program needs be used to initiate proper shutdown of the > > server. We are going to use this script in automated fashion. Does the > > script return meaningful error code that can be capture by calling script > > and act up on? What other proper ways to shutdown kafka 08? > > > > Thanks, > > Vadim >
