Darn, I was looking at the defaults for 0.8.2, which is why I thought it was enabled. Thanks for the help. Works fine now that I enabled it.
Steve On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Jiangjie Qin <[email protected]> wrote: > Automatic preferred leader election hasn¹t been turned on in 0.8.1.1. It¹s > been turned on in latest trunk though. > > The config name is ³auto.leader.rebalance.enable". > > Jiangjie (Becket) Qin > > On 5/13/15, 10:50 AM, "Stephen Armstrong" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >Does anyone have any insight into this? Am I correct that 0.8.1.1 should > >be > >running the leader election automatically? If this is a known issue, is > >there any reason not to have a cron script that runs the leader election > >regularly? > > > >Thanks > >Steve > > > >On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Stephen Armstrong < > >[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I'm running 2.10-0.8.1.1, and rebalance will not trigger on it's own. > >>From > >> > >> > http://grokbase.com/t/kafka/users/14bj5ps9hp/partition-auto-rebalance#201 > >>41118rf39q8cs4sjh6vzjgdw92e37cw > >> I think the leader imbalance means: For a single broker, add up all the > >> partitions it is leading (Y), and count the ones for which it's not the > >> preferred broker (X). The ratio of X:Y is the one being used. > >> > >> I have about 10 topics spread between the 3 brokers, each with 4 or 8 > >> partitions. If I restart broker A, wait 5 min, then restart B, > >>leadership > >> ends up entirely on C (even though A was in ISR when B went down). > >>Nothing > >> triggers on it's own. Triggering it manually works (with > >> bin/kafka-preferred-replica-election.sh). > >> > >> Is there something I should be checking, or is there a downside to just > >> adding a cron job to trigger replica election once an hour? > >> > >> Thanks > >> Steve > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > >-- > >Stephen Armstrong > >Senior Software Engineer > >Linqia, Inc - Matching Marketers with Storytellers > > > >www.linqia.com > >Like <http://www.facebook.com/linqia> | Follow > ><https://twitter.com/#%21/linqia> | Blog <http://www.linqia.com/blog/> > > > >Email. [email protected] > > > >The information in this e-mail and in any attachments is confidential and > >solely for the attention and use of the named addressee(s). You are hereby > >notified that any dissemination, distribution or copy of this > >communication > >is prohibited without the prior written consent of Linqia, Inc. If you > >have > >received this communication in error, please, notify the sender > >immediately > >by reply e-mail and delete this e-mail from your system as well as any > >files transmitted with it. > > -- Stephen Armstrong Senior Software Engineer Linqia, Inc - Matching Marketers with Storytellers www.linqia.com Like <http://www.facebook.com/linqia> | Follow <https://twitter.com/#%21/linqia> | Blog <http://www.linqia.com/blog/> Email. [email protected] The information in this e-mail and in any attachments is confidential and solely for the attention and use of the named addressee(s). You are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copy of this communication is prohibited without the prior written consent of Linqia, Inc. If you have received this communication in error, please, notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this e-mail from your system as well as any files transmitted with it.
