High level consumer rebalance question

[tao xiao <xi...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I have 3 high level consumers with the same group id. One of the consumer
goes down, I know rebalance will kick in in the remaining two consumers.
What happens if one of the remaining consumers is very slow during
rebalancing and it hasn't released ownership of some of the topics will the
other consumer claim the ownership of those topics that are currently owned
by the slow consumer (assuming those topics will be assigned to the other
consumer after a successful rebalance) and start consuming?