Thanks Matthias On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 11:25 AM Matthias J. Sax <matth...@confluent.io> wrote:
> There is not upper limit. > > And yes, you are right about rebalancing. This would be an issue and > yes, you can use the rebalance listener to address it (it's the purpose > of the rebalance listener to be used for cases like this). > > -Matthias > > > On 10/16/18 2:19 PM, pradeep s wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a usecase to stream messages from Kafka and buffer it in memory > till > > a message count is reached and then write these to output file . I am > using > > manual commit . I have a question on whats the maximum time i can wait > > after consuming the message and till we commit back to Kafka . Is there a > > upper limit for this ? Is consumer rebalance the only issue while waiting > > long periods, then can i write the contents using a rebalance listener > and > > commit at that point . > > Thanks > > Pradeep > > > >