The delay in that KIP is just 3 seconds, not minutes though, right? Would you 
have any logs to share?

Thanks
Eno
> On 14 Jun 2017, at 16:14, Bryan Baugher <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Our consumer group isn't doing anything stateful and we've seen this
> behavior for existing groups as well. It seems like timing could be an
> issue, thanks for the information.
> 
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 7:39 PM James Cheng <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Bryan,
>> 
>> This sounds related to
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-134%3A+Delay+initial+consumer+group+rebalance
>> and https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4925.
>> 
>> -James
>> 
>>> On Jun 13, 2017, at 7:02 AM, Bryan Baugher <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The topics already exist prior to starting any of the consumers
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 9:35 PM J Pai <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> When are the topics on which these consumer groups consume, created?
>>>> 
>>>> -Jaikiran
>>>> On 13-Jun-2017, at 3:18 AM, Bryan Baugher <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>> 
>>>> We are currently experiencing slow startup times for our consumer groups
>>>> (16-32 processes for a hundred or more partitions) in the range of
>> minutes
>>>> (3-15 minutes), where little to no messages are consumed before suddenly
>>>> everything just starts working at full speed.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm currently using Kafka 0.9.0.1 but we are in the middle of upgrading
>> to
>>>> Kafka 0.10.2.1. We also using the newer kafka consumer API and group
>>>> management on a simple Apache Storm topology. We don't make use of
>> Storm's
>>>> kafka spout but instead wrote a simple one ourselves.
>>>> 
>>>> Using the kafka AdminClient I was able to poll for consumer group
>> summary
>>>> information. What I've found is that the group seems to sit
>>>> in PreparingRebalance state for minutes before finally becoming Stable
>>>> which then everything starts processing quickly. I've also enabled debug
>>>> logging around the consumer's coordinator classes but didn't see
>> anything
>>>> to indicate the issue.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm hoping that just upgrading to 0.10 or tweaking how we use our
>> consumer
>>>> in Apache Storm is the problem but are there any pointers on things I
>>>> should look at or try?
>>>> 
>>>> Bryan
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 
>> 

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