Have you looked at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/FAQ#FAQ-Myconsumerseemstohavestopped%2Cwhy%3F?
Thanks, Jun On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Sybrandy, Casey < casey.sybra...@six3systems.com> wrote: > Hello, > > We're seeing an issue running 0.7.0 where one or more of our consumers are > pausing after about an hour when we have a lot of threads configured. Our > setup is as follows: > > > * 4 brokers configured for 32 threads and 32 partitions on each > broker. > > * 2 consumers each processing 40 streams (24 and 16). > > * Zookeeper server is a CDH version that's at least 3.3.4. > > We were also seeing this with 3 consumers running 18 threads each. As you > can tell, the hardware is quite beefy and the brokers are described as > being "bored." > > Outside of upgrading to 0.7.2, which we are planning on doing but can't > yet, what else can we look into to try to resolve this or at least > determine what's happening? > > Thanks. > > Casey >