I've noticed that kafka frequently fails to shut down completely when running the shutdown script. After executing kafka-server-stop.sh, it outputs this and does not return to the prompt. Is this anything to be concerned about? An addition kill command will force it down.
[2014-06-04 17:24:07,686] INFO [Kafka Server 0], shutting down (kafka.server.KafkaServer) [2014-06-04 17:24:07,688] INFO [Socket Server on Broker 0], Shutting down (kafka.network.SocketServer) [2014-06-04 17:24:07,692] INFO [Socket Server on Broker 0], Shutdown completed (kafka.network.SocketServer) [2014-06-04 17:24:07,693] INFO [Kafka Request Handler on Broker 0], shutting down (kafka.server.KafkaRequestHandlerPool) [2014-06-04 17:24:07,695] INFO [Kafka Request Handler on Broker 0], shut down completely (kafka.server.KafkaRequestHandlerPool) [2014-06-04 17:24:07,789] INFO [Replica Manager on Broker 0]: Shut down (kafka.server.ReplicaManager) 2014-06-04 17:24:07,790] INFO [ReplicaFetcherManager on broker 0] shutting down (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherManager) [2014-06-04 17:24:07,792] INFO [ReplicaFetcherManager on broker 0] shutdown completed (kafka.server.eplicaFetcherManager) [2014-06-04 17:24:07,793] INFO [Replica Manager on Broker 0]: Shutted down completely (kafka.server.ReplicaManager) Thanks, Ryan Williams