ConsumerRebalanceFailedException

Hi All,

I am getting consumer rebalance failed exception if i restart my consumer
within 1-3 seconds.

Exception trace is:

Caused by: kafka.common.ConsumerRebalanceFailedException:
indexConsumerGroup1_IMPETUS-I0027C-1388416992091-ac0d82d7 can't rebalance
after 4 retries
at
kafka.consumer.ZookeeperConsumerConnector$ZKRebalancerListener.syncedRebalance(Unknown
Source)
at
kafka.consumer.ZookeeperConsumerConnector.kafka$consumer$ZookeeperConsumerConnector$$reinitializeConsumer(Unknown
Source)
at kafka.consumer.ZookeeperConsumerConnector.consume(Unknown Source)
at
kafka.javaapi.consumer.ZookeeperConsumerConnector.createMessageStreams(Unknown
Source)
at
kafka.javaapi.consumer.ZookeeperConsumerConnector.createMessageStreams(Unknown
Source)

Is this exception depends on any of below properties:
zookeeper.session.timeout.ms 6000
zookeeper.connection.timeout.ms 6000

If i kill the consumer and start that again after 5-6 sec then it started
working properly without throwing any exception.

If i start consumer immediately after killing that then
ConsumerRebalanceFailedException occurs.

Please help !!