I've installed (for ansible scripting testing purposes) 3 VM's each containing kafka & zookeeer clustered together
Ubuntu 14.04 Zookeepers are 3.4.6 and kafka 2.11-0.8.2-beta The kafka servers have broker id's 2, 4, 6 The zookeepers seems happy. The kafka servers start up and seems happy. I can created two test topics as in the getting started guide bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --zookeeper localhost:2181 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1 --topic test bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --zookeeper localhost:2181 --replication-factor 3 --partitions 32 --topic test3 I published some messages on each topic and after a while I noticed that I ran out of disk space and there are millions of logs in syslog similar to the one below. Any hints on what can cause this problem? /svante Dec 2 07:40:17 ubuntu supervisord: kafka-broker [2014-12-02 07:40:17,120] WARN [Replica Manager on Broker 4]: Fetch request with correlation id 21 from client ReplicaFetcherThread-0-6 on partition [test3,3] failed due to Leader not local for partition [test3, 3] on broker 4 (kafka.server.ReplicaManager) Dec 2 07:40:17 ubuntu supervisord: kafka-broker [2014-12-02 07:40:17,120] WARN [Replica Manager on Broker 4]: Fetch request with correlation id 21 from client ReplicaFetcherThread-0-6 on partition [test3,4] failed due to Leader not local for partition [test3, 4] on broker 4 (kafka.server.ReplicaManager) Dec 2 07:40:17 ubuntu supervisord: kafka-broker [2014-12-02 07:40:17,120] WARN [Replica Manager on Broker 4]: Fetch request with correlation id 21 from client ReplicaFetcherThread-0-6 on partition [test3,26] failed due to Leader not local for partition [test3,26] on broker 4 (kafka.server.ReplicaManager) Dec 2 07:40:17 ubuntu supervisord: kafka-broker [2014-12-02 07:40:17,121] ERROR [KafkaApi-4] error when handling request Name: FetchRequest; Version: 0; CorrelationId: 21; ClientId: ReplicaFetcherThread-0-6; ReplicaId: 4; MaxWait: 500 ms; MinBytes: 1 bytes; RequestInfo: [test3,22] -> PartitionFetchInfo(0,1048576),[test3,31] -> PartitionFetchInfo(0,1048576),[test3,21] ->PartitionFetchInfo(0,1048576),[test3,13] -> PartitionFetchInfo(0,1048576),[test3,9] -> PartitionFetchInfo(0,1048576),[test3,28] -> PartitionFetchInfo(0,1048576),[test3,27] -> PartitionFetchInfo(0,1048576),[test3,15] -> PartitionFetchInfo(0,1048576),[test3,7] -> PartitionFetchInfo(0,1048576),[test3,8] -> PartitionFetchInfo(0,1048576),[test3,2] -> PartitionFetchInfo(0,1048576),[test3,19] -> PartitionFetchInfo(0,1048576),[test3,25] -> PartitionFetchInfo(0,1048576),[test3,20] -> PartitionFetchInfo(0,1048576),[test3,14] -> PartitionFetchInfo(0,1048576),[test2,0] -> PartitionFetchInfo(0,1048576),[test3,16] -> PartitionFetchInfo(0,1048576),[test3,1] -> PartitionFetchInfo(0,1048576),[test3,10] -> PartitionFetchInfo(0,1048576),[test3,3] -> PartitionFetchInfo(0,1048576),[test3,4] -> PartitionFetchInfo(0,1048576),[test3,26] -> PartitionFetchInfo(0,1048576) (kafka.server.KafkaApis) Dec 2 07:40:17 ubuntu supervisord: kafka-broker kafka.common.KafkaException: Should not set log end offset on partition [test3,22]'s local replica 4 Dec 2 07:40:17 ubuntu supervisord: kafka-broker #011at kafka.cluster.Replica.logEndOffset_$eq(Replica.scala:52) Dec 2 07:40:17 ubuntu supervisord: kafka-broker #011at kafka.server.ReplicaManager.updateReplicaLEOAndPartitionHW(ReplicaManager.scala:565) Dec 2 07:40:17 ubuntu supervisord: kafka-broker #011at kafka.server.KafkaApis$$anonfun$recordFollowerLogEndOffsets$2.apply(KafkaApis.scala:348) Dec 2 07:40:17 ubuntu supervisord: kafka-broker #011at kafka.server.KafkaApis$$anonfun$recordFollowerLogEndOffsets$2.apply(KafkaApis.scala:346) Dec 2 07:40:17 ubuntu supervisord: kafka-broker #011at scala.collection.MapLike$MappedValues$$anonfun$foreach$3.apply(MapLike.scala:245) Dec 2 07:40:17 ubuntu supervisord: kafka-broker #011at scala.collection.MapLike$MappedValues$$anonfun$foreach$3.apply(MapLike.scala:245) Dec 2 07:40:17 ubuntu supervisord: kafka-broker #011at scala.collection.TraversableLike$WithFilter$$anonfun$foreach$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:778) Dec 2 07:40:17 ubuntu supervisord: kafka-broker #011at scala.collection.immutable.HashMap$HashMap1.foreach(HashMap.scala:221) Dec 2 07:40:17 ubuntu supervisord: kafka-broker #011at scala.collection.immutable.HashMap$HashTrieMap.foreach(HashMap.scala:428) Dec 2 07:40:17 ubuntu supervisord: kafka-broker #011at scala.collection.TraversableLike$WithFilter.foreach(TraversableLike.scala:777) Dec 2 07:40:17 ubuntu supervisord: kafka-broker #011at scala.collection.MapLike$MappedValues.foreach(MapLike.scala:245) Dec 2 07:40:17 ubuntu supervisord: kafka-broker #011at kafka.server.KafkaApis.recordFollowerLogEndOffsets(KafkaApis.scala:346) Dec 2 07:40:17 ubuntu supervisord: kafka-broker #011at kafka.server.KafkaApis.handleFetchRequest(KafkaApis.scala:311) Dec 2 07:40:17 ubuntu supervisord: kafka-broker #011at kafka.server.KafkaApis.handle(KafkaApis.scala:60) Dec 2 07:40:17 ubuntu supervisord: kafka-broker #011at kafka.server.KafkaRequestHandler.run(KafkaRequestHandler.scala:59) Dec 2 07:40:17 ubuntu supervisord: kafka-broker #011at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Dec 2 07:40:17 ubuntu supervisord: kafka-broker [2014-12-02 07:40:17,124] ERROR [ReplicaFetcherThread-0-6], Error for partition [test3,22] to broker 6:class kafka.common.UnknownException(kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherThread) Dec 2 07:40:17 ubuntu supervisord: kafka-broker [2014-12-02 07:40:17,124] ERROR [ReplicaFetcherThread-0-6], Error for partition [test3,31] to broker 6:class kafka.common.UnknownExceptionkafka.server.ReplicaFetcherThread) Dec 2 07:40:17 ubuntu supervisord: kafka-broker [2014-12-02 07:40:17,124] ERROR [ReplicaFetcherThread-0-6], Error for partition [test3,21] to broker 6:class kafka.common.UnknownException(kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherThread) Dec 2 07:40:17 ubuntu supervisord: kafka-broker [2014-12-02 07:40:17,124] ERROR [ReplicaFetcherThread-0-6], Error for partition [test3,13] to broker 6:class kafka.common.UnknownException(kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherThread) Dec 2 07:40:17 ubuntu supervisord: kafka-broker [2014-12-02 07:40:17,124] ERROR [ReplicaFetcherThread-0-6], Error for partition [test3,9] to broker 6:class kafka.common.UnknownException(kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherThread)