Haven't tried updating to 2.4.0 yet. Were there any related fixes or improvements in that version? I skimmed the changelog but I didn't see anything.
I found this issue https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-9039 which I thought could be related to our problems but it seems like it's projected to be included in 2.5.0. Thanks, Brandon ________________________________ From: Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> Sent: Monday, February 3, 2020 7:31 AM To: Kafka Users <users@kafka.apache.org> Subject: Re: High CPU in 2.2.0 kafka cluster Hi Brandon, Are you still seeing this behavior with Apache Kafka 2.4.0? Ismael On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 10:51 AM Brandon Barron <brandon.bar...@live.com> wrote: > We were running client version 2.3.0 for a while, then bumped to 2.3.1 for > a particular kafka streams bug fix. We saw this issue while both versions > were running. > > Brandon > > ________________________________ > From: Jamie <jamied...@aol.co.uk.INVALID> > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2020 1:03 PM > To: users@kafka.apache.org <users@kafka.apache.org> > Subject: Re: High CPU in 2.2.0 kafka cluster > > Hi Brandon, > Which version of Kafka are the consumers running? My understanding is that > if they're running a version lower than the brokers then they could be > using a different format for the messages which means the brokers have to > convert each record before sending to the consumer. > Thanks, > Jamie > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brandon Barron <brandon.bar...@live.com> > To: users@kafka.apache.org <users@kafka.apache.org> > Sent: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:11 > Subject: High CPU in 2.2.0 kafka cluster > > Hi, > > We had a small cluster (4 brokers) dealing with very low throughput - a > couple hundred messages per minute at the very most. In that cluster we had > a little under 3300 total consumers (all were kafka streams instances). All > broker CPUs were maxed out almost consistently for a few weeks. > > We switched traffic to a new cluster eventually. The old cluster sitting > idle for a few days was at ~40% CPU, with consumers still running. When I > took down all the consumers, the idle CPU on the brokers went to about 4%. > > To test, we decided to mirror active traffic in our new cluster to the old > cluster (which now has no running consumers). The CPU didn't budge; it's > still at ~4% as expected with the low throughput. > > One more thing to add: I ran a thread profiler on a couple brokers when > the old cluster was taking active traffic with running consumers and the > CPU was maxed out. Each time, I saw the ReplicaFetcherThread eating up > around 40% of CPU time. > > Can you give any advice on what might be the root cause of this? > > Thanks, > Brandon >