Hi,

I have a custom Kafka consumer which reads messages from a topic, hands over 
the processing of the messages  to a different thread, and while the messages 
are being processed, it pauses the topic and keeps polling the Kafka topic (to 
maintain heartbeats) and also commits offsets using commitSync() once the 
processing thread returns success.
This consumer is the only consumer in its group. Auto commit for offsets is set 
to false.

The consumer also registers the onPartitionsAssigned() and 
onPartitionsRevoked() listeners.

Recently I observed that the consumer frequently crashes (if consuming large 
number of messages) with the following exception:


        org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.CommitFailedException: Commit cannot 
be completed due to group rebalance at 
org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerCoordinator$OffsetCommitResponseHandler.handle(ConsumerCoordinator.java:546)
        at 
org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerCoordinator$OffsetCommitResponseHandler.handle(ConsumerCoordinator.java:487)
        at 
org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator$CoordinatorResponseHandler.onSuccess(AbstractCoordinator.java:681)
        at 
org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator$CoordinatorResponseHandler.onSuccess(AbstractCoordinator.java:654)
        at 
org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.RequestFuture$1.onSuccess(RequestFuture.java:167)
        at 
org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.RequestFuture.fireSuccess(RequestFuture.java:133)
        at 
org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.RequestFuture.complete(RequestFuture.java:107)
        at 
org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient$RequestFutureCompletionHandler.onComplete(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:350)
        at org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient.poll(NetworkClient.java:288)
        at 
org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient.clientPoll(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:303)
        at 
org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient.poll(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:197)
        at 
org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient.poll(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:187)

None of the rebalance listeners were called before this exception.
Could somebody suggest why this rebalancing is being triggered, always while 
committing the offsets (or is the actual issue somewhere else?)

Regards,
Rahul Misra

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