title: Kafka : Error from SyncGroup, The request timed out
body: <p>Recently we are experiencing "Error from SyncGroup: The request timed out" frequently with the Java Kafka APIs.</p>
  
  <p>This issue usually happens with few topic or consumer group in Kafka cluster. Does anyone can provide some pointers about this error?
  As a workaround, if I change the consumer group name I don't see the error.
  Broker Version : 0.9.0
  Kafka client version : 0.9.0.1</p>
  
  <pre><code>Exception in thread "main" org.apache.kafka.common.KafkaException: Unexpected error from SyncGroup: The request timed out.
  
  at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator$SyncGroupRequestHandler.handle(AbstractCoordinator.java:444)
  
  at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator$SyncGroupRequestHandler.handle(AbstractCoordinator.java:411)
  
  at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator$CoordinatorResponseHandler.onSuccess(AbstractCoordinator.java:665)
  
  at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator$CoordinatorResponseHandler.onSuccess(AbstractCoordinator.java:644)
  
  at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.RequestFuture$1.onSuccess(RequestFuture.java:167)
  
  at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.RequestFuture.fireSuccess(RequestFuture.java:133)
  
  at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.RequestFuture.complete(RequestFuture.java:107)
  
  at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient$RequestFutureCompletionHandler.onComplete(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:380)
  
  at org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient.poll(NetworkClient.java:274)
  </code></pre>