Hello Otis, What is your replication factor?
Guozhang On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Otis Gospodnetic < otis.gospodne...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have 2 pretty unbalanced brokers running 0.8.1.1 and I'm trying to > balance them (read: free disk space on the overloaded broker). > > Is there a tool that will just rebalance everything? I couldn't find one, > so I ran this: > > $ sh kafka-reassign-partitions.sh --broker-list 1 --zookeeper > zk1.prod.sematext:3131 --reassignment-json-file /tmp/partition.json > --execute > > This seems to have *copied* about half of the partitions of the topic > specified in the given JSON file from broker 2 (source) to broker 1 > (target). Good. > > I see this in broker 2 (source broker): > > [2014-05-31 19:24:59,994] INFO [ReplicaFetcherManager on broker 2] Removed > fetcher for partitions [spm_new_cluster_free_system_topic,1] > (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherManager) > > ... which looks promising.... but: > > My broker 2 (source) *still* has all partitions of the problematic topic. > I thought it would remove the moved partitions from the source broker.... > no? > > Thanks, > Otis > -- > Performance Monitoring * Log Analytics * Search Analytics > Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/ > -- -- Guozhang