Any chance the consumer process that consumes from that topic is still running while you are doing all this?
--Vahid From: Tim Visher <tim.vis...@gmail.com> To: users@kafka.apache.org Date: 12/09/2016 08:26 AM Subject: Re: Deleting a topic without delete.topic.enable=true? I did all of that because setting delete.topic.enable=true wasn't effective. We set that across every broker, restarted them, and then deleted the topic, and it was still stuck in existence. On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Ali Akhtar <ali.rac...@gmail.com> wrote: > You need to also delete / restart zookeeper, its probably storing the > topics there. (Or yeah, just enable it and then delete the topic) > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 9:09 PM, Rodrigo Sandoval < > rodrigo.madfe...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > Why did you do all those things instead of just setting > > delete.topic.enable=true? > > > > On Dec 9, 2016 13:40, "Tim Visher" <tim.vis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > > > I'm really confused at the moment. We created a topic with brokers set > to > > > delete.topic.enable=false. > > > > > > We now need to delete that topic. To do that we shut down all the > > brokers, > > > deleted everything under log.dirs and logs.dir on all the kafka > brokers, > > > `rmr`ed the entire chroot that kafka was storing things under in > > zookeeper, > > > and then brought kafka back up. > > > > > > After doing all that, the topic comes back, every time. > > > > > > What can we do to delete that topic? > > > > > > -- > > > > > > In Christ, > > > > > > Timmy V. > > > > > > http://blog.twonegatives.com/ > > > http://five.sentenc.es/ -- Spend less time on mail > > > > > >