As Jun suggested, one reason could be that the topic.metadata.refresh.interval.ms is too high. Did you observe if the distribution improves after topic.metadata.refresh.interval.ms has passed ?
Thanks Neha On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 4:47 AM, prashant amar <amasin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am using kafka 08 version ... > > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Which revision of 0.8 are you using? In a recent change, a producer will > > stick to a partition for topic.metadata.refresh.interval.ms (defaults to > > 10 > > mins) time before picking another partition at random. > > Thanks, > > Jun > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:56 PM, prashant amar <amasin...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > I created a topic with 4 partitions and for some reason the producer is > > > pushing only to one partition. > > > > > > This is consistently happening across all topics that I created ... > > > > > > Is there a specific configuration that I need to apply to ensure that > > load > > > is evenly distributed across all partitions? > > > > > > > > > Group Topic Pid Offset > > logSize > > > Lag Owner > > > perfgroup1 perfpayload1 0 10965 > 11220 > > > 255 perfgroup1_XXXX-0 > > > perfgroup1 perfpayload1 1 0 0 > > > 0 perfgroup1_XXXX-1 > > > perfgroup1 perfpayload1 2 0 0 > > > 0 perfgroup1_XXXXX-2 > > > perfgroup1 perfpayload1 3 0 0 > > > 0 perfgroup1_XXXXX-3 > > > > > >