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Current stateUnder Discussion

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Please keep the discussion on the mailing list rather than commenting on the wiki (wiki discussions get unwieldy fast).

Motivation

Today group coordinator will take in unlimited number of join group requests into the membership metadata. There is a potential risk described in

Jira
serverASF JIRA
serverId5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b
keyKAFKA-7610
 where too many illegal joining members will burst broker memory before session timeout GC them. To ensure stability of the broker, we propose to enforce a hard limit on the size of consumer group in order to prevent explosion of server side cache/memory.

Public Interfaces

We shall propose to add a config new configuration into KafkaConfig.scala, and its behavior will affect the following coordinator APIs:

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titleKafkaConfignice
val GroupMaxSize = "group.max.size"
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.define(GroupMaxSizeProp.define(GroupInitialRebalanceDelayMsProp, INT, Defaults.GroupInitialRebalanceDelayMsGroupMaxSize, MEDIUM, GroupInitialRebalanceDelayMsDoc)

Briefly list any new interfaces that will be introduced as part of this proposal or any existing interfaces that will be removed or changed. The purpose of this section is to concisely call out the public contract that will come along with this feature.

A public interface is any change to the following:

  • Binary log format

  • The network protocol and api behavior

  • Any class in the public packages under clientsConfiguration, especially client configuration

    • org/apache/kafka/common/serialization

    • org/apache/kafka/common

    • org/apache/kafka/common/errors

    • org/apache/kafka/clients/producer

    • org/apache/kafka/clients/consumer (eventually, once stable)

  • Monitoring

  • Command line tools and arguments

  • Anything else that will likely break existing users in some way when they upgrade

Proposed Changes

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Proposed Changes


We shall add a config called group.max.size on the coordinator side.

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titleKafkaConfig
val GroupMaxSize = "group.max.size"
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.define(GroupMaxSizeProp, INT, Defaults.GroupMaxSize, MEDIUM, GroupMaxSizeDoc)


Compatibility, Deprecation, and Migration Plan

  • What impact (if any) will there be on existing users?
  • If we are changing behavior how will we phase out the older behavior?
  • If we need special migration tools, describe them here.
  • When will we remove the existing behavior?

Rejected Alternatives

If there are alternative ways of accomplishing the same thing, what were they? The purpose of this section is to motivate why the design is the way it is and not some other way.