This is un-expected. Any error logs / exceptions did you see from the clients when they can no longer send / fetch from brokers?
Guozhang On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Luo, Chao <chao....@here.com> wrote: > Dear Kafka fans, > > I have a concern of testing Kafka fault tolerance. Or may I did not > configure it right. > > I have two kafka servers and one zookeeper, which are running on three > different AWS EC2 instances. I created a topic with one partition and two > replica. First, the two kafka servers were running and everything was > perfect. After I shut down the leader for my topic, the producer and the > consumer just stopped working. Why did Kafka system stop working? I did not > see any fault tolerance here. However, when I restarted the leader (I just > shut down ), the producer and consumer started to work again. Here is my > topic description: > > Topic:fast-messages PartitionCount:1 ReplicationFactor:2 > Configs: > Topic: fast-messages Partition: 0 Leader: 1 Replicas: > 1,0 Isr: 1,0 > > > > Any comments or suggestions are highly appreciated! > > Thanks! > Chao > -- -- Guozhang
