[KAFKA-3878] Exponential backoff for broker reconnect attempts (KIP-144)

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.11.0.0
• Component/s: clients, network
• Labels: kip
• Assignee: Dana Powers
• Reporter: Dana Powers
• Created: 20/Jun/16 17:12
• Updated: 21/Feb/18 17:27
• Resolved: 19/May/17 13:10

Description

The client currently uses a constant backoff policy, configured via 'reconnect.backoff.ms' . To reduce network load during longer broker outages, it would be useful to support an optional exponentially increasing backoff policy.

Issue Links

• duplicates: KAFKA-902 Randomize backoff on the clients for metadata requests
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1523
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