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

So I found an answer and wanted to post it in case anyone else had this problem. In the kafka/bin/kafka-run-class.sh at the very bottom there is a part where it says

exec $JAVA $KAFKA_HEAP_OPTS $KAFKA_JVM_PERFORMANCE_OPTS $KAFKA_GC_LOG_OPTS $KAFKA_JMX_OPTS $KAFKA_LOG4J_OPTS -cp $CLASSPATH $KAFKA_OPTS "$@"

Delete the $KAFKA_GC_LOG_OPTS option. Might be a hack, but at least it gets the kafka zookeeper server to start!