[KAFKA-987] Avoid checkpointing offsets in Kafka consumer that have not changed since the last commit

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.0
• Labels: improvement
• Assignee: Swapnil Ghike
• Reporter: Swapnil Ghike
• Created: 22/Jul/13 23:08
• Updated: 26/Jul/13 21:19
• Resolved: 23/Jul/13 18:21

Description

We need to fix the Kafka zookeeper consumer to avoid checkpointing offsets that have not changed since the last offset commit. This will help reduce the write load on zookeeper.