@Ewen On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Ewen Cheslack-Postava <e...@confluent.io> wrote: > Even if you have metadata cached, if the broker isn't available then > messages can get stuck in the producer indefinitely. Currently the new > producer doesn't have any client-side timeouts, which is a bug. See > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1788 for more details.
Thanks! That clears it then. Client-side timeouts are what are required. Will read up on the ticket... Samuel
