Fix confluent-kafka consume(timeout=1) taking longer than timeout
I expected consume(100, timeout=1) to return within a second; it took five. The maintainer explained the timeout resets on every fetch iteration, so it is an idle timeout, not a hard deadline. Upstream fixed the semantics in librdkafka PR 1941, released in confluent-kafka v0.11.6, which is what I upgraded to. If you…
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