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[jira] [Assigned] (KAFKA-5242) add max_number _of_retries to exponential backoff strategy

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-5242?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Matthias J. Sax reassigned KAFKA-5242:
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    Assignee: Matthias J. Sax

> add max_number _of_retries to exponential backoff strategy
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>
>                 Key: KAFKA-5242
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-5242
>             Project: Kafka
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: streams
>    Affects Versions: 0.10.2.0
>            Reporter: Lukas Gemela
>            Assignee: Matthias J. Sax
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: clio_170511.log
>
>
> From time to time, during relabance we are getting a lot of exceptions saying 
> {code}
> org.apache.kafka.streams.errors.LockException: task [0_0] Failed to lock the state directory: /app/db/clio/0_0
> 	at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.ProcessorStateManager.<init>(ProcessorStateManager.java:102) ~[kafka-streams-0.10.2.0.jar!/:?]
> 	at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.AbstractTask.<init>(AbstractTask.java:73) ~[kafka-streams-0.10.2.0.jar!/:?]
> 	at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamTask.<init>(StreamTask.java:108) ~[kafka-streams-0.10.2.0.jar!/:?]
> 	at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamThread.createStreamTask(StreamThread.java:834) ~[kafka-streams-0.10.2.0.jar!/:?]
> 	at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamThread$TaskCreator.createTask(StreamThread.java:1207) ~[kafka-streams-0.10.2.0.jar!/:?]
> 	at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamThread$AbstractTaskCreator.retryWithBackoff(StreamThread.java:1180) [kafka-streams-0.10.2.0.jar!/:?]
> 	at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamThread.addStreamTasks(StreamThread.java:937) [kafka-streams-0.10.2.0.jar!/:?]
> 	at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamThread.access$500(StreamThread.java:69) [kafka-streams-0.10.2.0.jar!/:?]
> 	at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamThread$1.onPartitionsAssigned(StreamThread.java:236) [kafka-streams-0.10.2.0.jar!/:?]
> 	at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerCoordinator.onJoinComplete(ConsumerCoordinator.java:255) [kafka-clients-0.10.2.0.jar!/:?]
> 	at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator.joinGroupIfNeeded(AbstractCoordinator.java:339) [kafka-clients-0.10.2.0.jar!/:?]
> 	at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator.ensureActiveGroup(AbstractCoordinator.java:303) [kafka-clients-0.10.2.0.jar!/:?]
> 	at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerCoordinator.poll(ConsumerCoordinator.java:286) [kafka-clients-0.10.2.0.jar!/:?]
> 	at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer.pollOnce(KafkaConsumer.java:1030) [kafka-clients-0.10.2.0.jar!/:?]
> 	at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer.poll(KafkaConsumer.java:995) [kafka-clients-0.10.2.0.jar!/:?]
> 	at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamThread.runLoop(StreamThread.java:582) [kafka-streams-0.10.2.0.jar!/:?]
> 	at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamThread.run(StreamThread.java:368) [kafka-streams-0.10.2.0.jar!/:?]
> {code}
> (see attached logfile)
> It was actually problem on our side - we ran startStreams() twice and therefore we had two threads touching the same folder structure. 
> But what I've noticed, the backoff strategy in StreamThread$AbstractTaskCreator.retryWithBackoff can run endlessly - after 20 iterations it takes 6hours until the next attempt to start a task. 
> I've noticed latest code contains check for rebalanceTimeoutMs, but that still does not solve the problem especially in case MAX_POLL_INTERVAL_MS_CONFIG is set to Integer.MAX_INT. at this stage kafka streams just hangs up indefinitely.
> I would personally make that backoffstrategy a bit more configurable with a number of retries that if it exceed a configured value it propagates the exception as any other exception to custom client exception handler.
> (I can provide a patch)



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