Consumer offset checker shows its connected to consumer(account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0) but that consumer is not started,what could be reason its showing its connected.
Another question is why is it not getting rebalanced to another consumer(account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl04) we have running. Group Topic Pid Offset logSize Lag Owner account-access-hadoop-consumer account-access 0 8802 8858 56 account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0 account-access-hadoop-consumer account-access 1 8159 8216 57 account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0 account-access-hadoop-consumer account-access 2 8742 8895 153 account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0 account-access-hadoop-consumer account-access 3 11126 11132 6 account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0 account-access-hadoop-consumer account-access 4 13471 13562 91 account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0 account-access-hadoop-consumer account-access 5 16731 16748 17 account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0 account-access-hadoop-consumer account-access 6 16890 16928 38 account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0 account-access-hadoop-consumer account-access 7 6454 6486 32 account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0 account-access-hadoop-consumer account-access 8 5988 6075 87 account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0 account-access-hadoop-consumer account-access 9 7683 7693 10 account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0 account-access-hadoop-consumer account-access 10 11121 11441 320 account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0 account-access-hadoop-consumer account-access 11 9848 9954 106 account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0 account-access-hadoop-consumer account-access 12 10222 10267 45 account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0 account-access-hadoop-consumer account-access 13 7878 7967 89 account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0 account-access-hadoop-consumer account-access 14 12736 12853 117 account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0 account-access-hadoop-consumer account-access 15 18634 18636 2 account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0 account-access-hadoop-consumer account-access 16 18206 18252 46 account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0 account-access-hadoop-consumer account-access 17 20818 20830 12 account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0 account-access-hadoop-consumer account-access 18 11514 11522 8 account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0 account-access-hadoop-consumer account-access 19 12188 12230 42 account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0 account-access-hadoop-consumer account-access 20 19373 19438 65 account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0 account-access-hadoop-consumer account-access 21 11892 11892 0 account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0 account-access-hadoop-consumer account-access 22 12456 12496 40 account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0 account-access-hadoop-consumer account-access 23 12971 13060 89 account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0 account-access-hadoop-consumer account-access 24 18675 18740 65 account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0 account-access-hadoop-consumer account-access 25 11346 11353 7 account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0 account-access-hadoop-consumer account-access 26 12297 12337 40 account-access-hadoop-consumer_tm1mwdpl03-1383065261413-15d3cb41-0 It would be great if you guys shed some light,we are in our weekends trying to resolve this issue :) Thanks, Balaji