Minor Description
The internal process which automatically cleans up obsolete task state directories was modified in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-6647. The current logic in 2.6 is to remove all files from the task directory except the .lock file:
However, the directory is only removed in its entirely for a manual cleanup:
The result of this is that Streams will continue revisiting this directory and trying to clean it up, since it determines what to clean based on last-modification time of the task directory (which is now no longer deleted during the automatic cleanup). So a user will see log messages like:
stream-thread [app-c2d773e6-8ac3-4435-9777-378e0ec0ab82-CleanupThread] Deleting obsolete state directory 0_8 for task 0_8 as 60600001ms has elapsed (cleanup delay is 600000ms)
repeated again and again.
This issue doesn't seem to break anything - it's more about avoiding unnecessary logging and cleaning up empty task directories.