Hi Sadhan,

Do you see any errors on the server logs?

Guozhang


On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Sadhan Sood <sadhan.s...@gmail.com> wrote:

> We are seeing some strange behavior from brokers after we we had to change
> our log retention policy on brokers yesterday. We had a huge spike in
> producer data for a small period which caused brokers to get very close to
> the max disk space. Normally our retention policy is good 6-7 days but
> since our consumers were synced up we changed the retention policy from
> hour based to size based and cut short the size to a safe number (half of
> our max disk space and normal usage is around 30%). After the restart, we
> started seeing multiple producer side failures with FailedSends metrics
> showing almost 10% failures and FailedProduceRequestsPerSec on the broker
> side a non-zero number. The traces from one of the brokers looked like
> this:
>
> [KafkaApi-8] Produce request with correlation id 2050686 from client xxx on
> partition [TOPIC_NAME,18] failed due to Partition [TOPIC_NAME,18] doesn't
> exist on 8 (kafka.server.KafkaApis)
>  [KafkaApi-8] Produce request with correlation id 2102325 from client xxx
> on partition [TOPIC_NAME,28] failed due to Partition [TOPIC_NAME,28]
> doesn't exist on 8 (kafka.server.KafkaApis)
>
> We checked and made sure those partitions were present on the broker.
> Any help is appreciated. Also, is there a recommended way to purge log data
> quickly out from the brokers.
>
> Thanks,
> Sadhan
>



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