I can't think of anything special about the topics besides the clients
being very old (Java wrappers over Scala).

I do think it was using ack=0. But my guess is that the logging was done by
the Kafka producer thread. My application itself was not getting exceptions
from Kafka.

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Jun Rao <j...@confluent.io> wrote:

> Hmm, anything special with those 3 topics? Also, the broker log shows that
> the producer uses ack=0, which means the producer shouldn't get errors like
> leader not found. Could you clarify on the ack used by the producer?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jun
>
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Rajiv Kurian <ra...@signalfx.com> wrote:
>
> > The topic which stopped working had clients that were only using the old
> > Java producer that is a wrapper over the Scala producer. Again it seemed
> to
> > work perfectly in another of our realms where we have the same topics,
> same
> > producers/consumers etc but with less traffic.
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Jun Rao <j...@confluent.io> wrote:
> >
> > > Are you using the new java producer?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Jun
> > >
> > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Rajiv Kurian <ra...@signalfx.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Jun,
> > > > Answers inline:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Jun Rao <j...@confluent.io> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Rajiv,
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks for reporting this.
> > > > >
> > > > > 1. How did you verify that 3 of the topics are corrupted? Did you
> use
> > > > > DumpLogSegments tool? Also, is there a simple way to reproduce the
> > > > > corruption?
> > > > >
> > > > No I did not. The only reason I had to believe that was no writers
> > could
> > > > write to the topic. I have actually no idea what the problem was. I
> saw
> > > > very frequent (much more than usual) messages of the form:
> > > > INFO  [kafka-request-handler-2            ] [kafka.server.KafkaApis
> > > >       ]: [KafkaApi-6] Close connection due to error handling produce
> > > > request with correlation id 294218 from client id  with ack=0
> > > > and also message of the form:
> > > > INFO  [kafka-network-thread-9092-0        ] [kafka.network.Processor
> > > >       ]: Closing socket connection to /some ip
> > > > The cluster was actually a critical one so I had no recourse but to
> > > revert
> > > > the change (which like noted didn't fix things). I didn't have enough
> > > time
> > > > to debug further. The only way I could fix it with my limited Kafka
> > > > knowledge was (after reverting) deleting the topic and recreating it.
> > > > I had updated a low priority cluster before that worked just fine.
> That
> > > > gave me the confidence to upgrade this higher priority cluster which
> > did
> > > > NOT work out. So the only way for me to try to reproduce it is to try
> > > this
> > > > on our larger clusters again. But it is critical that we don't mess
> up
> > > this
> > > > high priority cluster so I am afraid to try again.
> > > >
> > > > > 2. As Lance mentioned, if you are using snappy, make sure that you
> > > > include
> > > > > the right snappy jar (1.1.1.7).
> > > > >
> > > > Wonder why I don't see Lance's email in this thread. Either way we
> are
> > > not
> > > > using compression of any kind on this topic.
> > > >
> > > > > 3. For the CPU issue, could you do a bit profiling to see which
> > thread
> > > is
> > > > > busy and where it's spending time?
> > > > >
> > > > Since I had to revert I didn't have the time to profile. Intuitively
> it
> > > > would seem like the high number of client disconnects/errors and the
> > > > increased network usage probably has something to do with the high
> CPU
> > > > (total guess). Again our other (lower traffic) cluster that was
> > upgraded
> > > > was totally fine so it doesn't seem like it happens all the time.
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Jun
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Rajiv Kurian <ra...@signalfx.com
> >
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > We had to revert to 0.8.3 because three of our topics seem to
> have
> > > > gotten
> > > > > > corrupted during the upgrade. As soon as we did the upgrade
> > producers
> > > > to
> > > > > > the three topics I mentioned stopped being able to do writes. The
> > > > clients
> > > > > > complained (occasionally) about leader not found exceptions. We
> > > > restarted
> > > > > > our clients and brokers but that didn't seem to help. Actually
> even
> > > > after
> > > > > > reverting to 0.8.3 these three topics were broken. To fix it we
> had
> > > to
> > > > > stop
> > > > > > all clients, delete the topics, create them again and then
> restart
> > > the
> > > > > > clients.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I realize this is not a lot of info. I couldn't wait to get more
> > > debug
> > > > > info
> > > > > > because the cluster was actually being used. Has any one run into
> > > > > something
> > > > > > like this? Are there any known issues with old
> consumers/producers.
> > > The
> > > > > > topics that got busted had clients writing to them using the old
> > Java
> > > > > > wrapper over the Scala producer.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Here are the steps I took to upgrade.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > For each broker:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 1. Stop the broker.
> > > > > > 2. Restart with the 0.9 broker running with
> > > > > > inter.broker.protocol.version=0.8.2.X
> > > > > > 3. Wait for under replicated partitions to go down to 0.
> > > > > > 4. Go to step 1.
> > > > > > Once all the brokers were running the 0.9 code with
> > > > > > inter.broker.protocol.version=0.8.2.X we restarted them one by
> one
> > > with
> > > > > > inter.broker.protocol.version=0.9.0.0
> > > > > >
> > > > > > When reverting I did the following.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > For each broker.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 1. Stop the broker.
> > > > > > 2. Restart with the 0.9 broker running with
> > > > > > inter.broker.protocol.version=0.8.2.X
> > > > > > 3. Wait for under replicated partitions to go down to 0.
> > > > > > 4. Go to step 1.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Once all the brokers were running 0.9 code with
> > > > > > inter.broker.protocol.version=0.8.2.X  I restarted them one by
> one
> > > with
> > > > > the
> > > > > > 0.8.2.3 broker code. This however like I mentioned did not fix
> the
> > > > three
> > > > > > broken topics.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Rajiv Kurian <
> ra...@signalfx.com>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Now that it has been a bit longer, the spikes I was seeing are
> > gone
> > > > but
> > > > > > > the CPU and network in/out on the three brokers that were
> showing
> > > the
> > > > > > > spikes are still much higher than before the upgrade. Their
> CPUs
> > > have
> > > > > > > increased from around 1-2% to 12-20%. The network in on the
> same
> > > > > brokers
> > > > > > > has gone up from under 2 Mb/sec to 19-33 Mb/sec. The network
> out
> > > has
> > > > > gone
> > > > > > > up from under 2 Mb/sec to 29-42 Mb/sec. I don't see a
> > corresponding
> > > > > > > increase in kafka messages in per second or kafka bytes in per
> > > second
> > > > > JMX
> > > > > > > metrics.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > > Rajiv
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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