When 0.8.2 arrives in the near future, consumer offsets will be stored by the brokers, and thus that workload will not be impacting ZK.
Best Regards, -Jonathan On Sep 10, 2014, at 8:20 AM, Mike Marzo <precisionarchery...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is it possible for the high level consumer to use a different zk cluster > than the cluster that manages broker leader electivity? > The high level consumer adds a lot of value but I don't like the idea that > bad user code could pound the core zk and effectively hurt the kafka > brokers > mike marzo > 908 209-4484