[jira] [Created] (KAFKA-2948) Kafka producer does not cope well with topic deletions

["Rajini Sivaram (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Rajini Sivaram created KAFKA-2948:
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             Summary: Kafka producer does not cope well with topic deletions
                 Key: KAFKA-2948
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2948
             Project: Kafka
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: producer 
    Affects Versions: 0.9.0.0
            Reporter: Rajini Sivaram
            Assignee: Rajini Sivaram


Kafka producer gets metadata for topics when send is invoked and thereafter it attempts to keep the metadata up-to-date without any explicit requests from the client. This works well in static environments, but when topics are added or deleted, list of topics in Metadata grows but never shrinks. Apart from being a memory leak, this results in constant requests for metadata for deleted topics.

We are running into this issue with the Confluent REST server where topic deletion from tests are filling up logs with warnings about unknown topics. Auto-create is turned off in our Kafka cluster.

I am happy to provide a fix, but am not sure what the right fix is. Does it make sense to remove topics from the metadata list when UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION response is received if there are no outstanding sends? It doesn't look very straightforward to do this, so any alternative suggestions are welcome.




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