Producer closed while allocating memory error

I am getting following error in kafka producer.

org.apache.kafka.common.KafkaException: Producer closed while allocating
memory at

org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.BufferPool.allocate(BufferPool.java:151)
~[kafka-clients-2.5.0.jar:?] at

org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.RecordAccumulator.append(RecordAccumulator.java:221)
~[kafka-clients-2.5.0.jar:?]

at
org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer.doSend(KafkaProducer.java:941)
~[kafka-clients-2.5.0.jar:?] at

org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer.send(KafkaProducer.java:862)
~[kafka-clients-2.5.0.jar:?]


What could be the reason for this error message?

Kafka version i am using is 2.5.0