No it is not common/expected. It will be difficult to give you any useful advise without your logs - please send over your state change logs and broker logs.
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 11:36:34PM -0500, Kashyap Mhaisekar wrote: > No. Is this error common? How to overcome this? > > Regards, > Kashyap > > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Joel Koshy <jjkosh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > So only one of the brokers have the data? i.e., with one partition. > > > > Do you see errors in your broker log around that time? What do you see > > in the kafka-state-change.log for that topic/partition? > > > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 03:36:52PM -0500, Kashyap Mhaisekar wrote: > > > Yes. > > > I have 3 kafka brokers and I have created one topic with 1 partition and > > 1 > > > replication (default options). All params are default. I was testing it > > > with heavy load and had a storm reading from this and suddenly the > > messages > > > stop. kafka's list topics script files then show the leader as -1. > > > > > > I got the same error even with 2 partitions and default replication. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Kashyap > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Joel Koshy <jjkosh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Can you describe your set up in more detail and also if you can > > > > reproduce this easily? This can happen when none of the replicas for a > > > > partition are available, but cannot comment further without details. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:54:59AM -0500, Kashyap Mhaisekar wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > At times, some of kafka topics end up showing the leader as -1. After > > > > this, > > > > > the messages dont get added to the topic nor consumed. I tried > > digging > > > > into > > > > > why the leader turns -1 *(leader: -1)* > > > > > > > > > > Is there a reason why this happens and how it can be resolved? > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > kashyap > > > > > > > > > >
