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Current state: "Under Discussion"

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JIRA: KAFKA-15776
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Motivation

When reading from remote storage, we are reusing the fetch.max.wait.ms config as a delay timeout for DelayedRemoteFetchPurgatory. fetch.max.wait.ms purpose is to wait for the given amount of time when there is no local data available to serve the FETCH request.

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