Daniel Compton created KAFKA-1517:
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Summary: Messages is a required argument to Producer Performance
Test
Key: KAFKA-1517
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1517
Project: Kafka
Issue Type: Bug
Affects Versions: 0.8.1.1
Reporter: Daniel Compton
Priority: Trivial
When running the producer performance test without providing a messages
argument, you get an error:
{noformat}
$bin/kafka-producer-perf-test.sh --topics mirrormirror --broker-list
kafka-dc21:9092
Missing required argument "[messages]"
Option Description
------ -----------
......
--messages <Long: count> The number of messages to send or
consume (default:
9223372036854775807)
{noformat}
However the [shell command
documentation|https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/c66e408b244de52f1c5c5bbd7627aa1f028f9a87/perf/src/main/scala/kafka/perf/PerfConfig.scala#L25]
doesn't say that this is required and implies that
[2^63-1|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9223372036854775807] (Long.MaxValue)
messages will be sent. It should probably look like the
[ConsoleProducer|https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/c66e408b244de52f1c5c5bbd7627aa1f028f9a87/core/src/main/scala/kafka/producer/ConsoleProducer.scala#L32]
or make this a non-required argument and set the default value to something
sane like 100,000 messages.
Which option is preferable for this?
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