If C1 dies, C2 will be owning that partition. However, C1 has to really die, which typically means that either you close the consumer connector or the jvm of C1 is gone.
In your case, it seems that C1 didn't die, it just hung. Do you know why C1 hung? Thanks, Jun On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Srinivas Reddy Kancharla <getre...@gmail.com > wrote: > Hi, > > I have a scenario where I have 1 partition and 1 consumer group having 2 > consumer threads running say C1 and C2. Since there is only one partition > for a given topic, say C1 is holding that partition. Now due to some reason > if C1 dies, can C2 get hold of that partition? > > i.e. C1 was busy with KafkaStream instance, for any reason if C1 dies or in > hung state, Can we make C2 talking to KafkaStream (for Partition 0). > I am facing this issue where I have 10 messages in partition 0 and C1 was > consuming it. At message 4, C1 went into hung state. Now I would like to > make C2 to consumer other messages which are not consumed by C1. > > Thank and regards, > Srini >
