Kafka Unrecognized VM option 'PrintGCDateStamps'

Question

I installed Kafka on a remote server, and when I tried to run

~/kafka/bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh ~/kafka/config/zookeeper.properties

And I r

Answer 1

Like the other answers -- I got this to work on Java 9. Had to make the following changes:

1. Edit the file bin/kafka-run-class.sh

2. Near the end of the file (around line 248) find the following block:

if [ "x$GC_LOG_ENABLED" = "xtrue" ]; then GC_LOG_FILE_NAME=$DAEMON_NAME$GC_FILE_SUFFIX KAFKA_GC_LOG_OPTS="-Xloggc:$LOG_DIR/$GC_LOG_FILE_NAME -verbose:gc -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps " fi

3. Remove the 2 flags : -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps and save the file.

4. Kafka should start okay on Java 9