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fetch.wait.max.ms controls how long a fetch request will wait on the broker in the normal case. The issue is that if there is a hard crash on the broker (host is down), the client may not realize this immediately since TCP will try very hard to maintain the socket connection. By setting socket.timeout.ms, we allow the client to break out sooner in this case. Typically, socket.timeout.ms should be set to be at least fetch.wait.max.ms or a bit larger. It's possible to specify an indefinite long poll by setting fetch.wait.max.ms to a very large value. It's not recommended right now due to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1016. The consumer-config documentation states that "The actual timeout set
will be max.fetch.wait + socket.timeout.ms." - however, that change seems to have been lost in the code a while ago. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1147^{Image Added} is filed to fix it.

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