Correction: So if you have n consumers in the same group you need n partitions per topic.
On 8/15/13 12:14 AM, "Eric Sites" <[email protected]> wrote: >Yes, that is the expected. > > >You need more partitions per topic, at lest 1 partition per consumer in >the group. > >So if you have n consumers you need n topics. > >All messages sent to the topic will be divided amongst the partitions. > >Cheers, >Eric Sites > >On 8/14/13 3:59 PM, "Wu, Jiang2 " <[email protected]> wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>In our experiments, we find that if multiple consumers in the same group >>listen to the same partition, then one consumer will receive all messages >>on this partition, and others get none. Is this inherent to Kafka design, >>or it can be changed by some configuration? Basically we expect ems queue >>behavior, i.e., each of the n consumers receive about 1/n of the total >>messages. >> >>Thanks, >>Jiang >> >
