Olson,Andrew created KAFKA-2189:
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             Summary: Snappy compression of message batches less efficient in 
0.8.2.1
                 Key: KAFKA-2189
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2189
             Project: Kafka
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: log
    Affects Versions: 0.8.2.1
            Reporter: Olson,Andrew
            Assignee: Jay Kreps


We are using snappy compression and noticed a fairly substantial increase 
(about 2.25x) in log filesystem space consumption after upgrading a Kafka 
cluster from 0.8.1.1 to 0.8.2.1. We found that this is caused by messages being 
seemingly recompressed individually (or possibly with a much smaller buffer or 
dictionary?) instead of as a batch as sent by producers. We eventually tracked 
down the change in compression ratio/scope to this [1] commit that updated the 
snappy version from 1.0.5 to 1.1.1.3. The Kafka client version does not appear 
to be relevant as we can reproduce this with both the 0.8.1.1 and 0.8.2.1 
Producer.

Here are the log files from our troubleshooting that contain the same set of 
1000 messages, for batch sizes of 1, 10, 100, and 1000. f9d9b was the last 
commit with 0.8.1.1-like behavior prior to f5ab8 introducing the issue.

{noformat}
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kafka kafka 404967 May 12 11:45 
/var/kafka2/f9d9b-batch-1-0/00000000000000000000.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kafka kafka 119951 May 12 11:45 
/var/kafka2/f9d9b-batch-10-0/00000000000000000000.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kafka kafka  89645 May 12 11:45 
/var/kafka2/f9d9b-batch-100-0/00000000000000000000.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kafka kafka  88279 May 12 11:45 
/var/kafka2/f9d9b-batch-1000-0/00000000000000000000.log

-rw-rw-r-- 1 kafka kafka 402837 May 12 11:41 
/var/kafka2/f5ab8-batch-1-0/00000000000000000000.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kafka kafka 382437 May 12 11:41 
/var/kafka2/f5ab8-batch-10-0/00000000000000000000.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kafka kafka 364791 May 12 11:41 
/var/kafka2/f5ab8-batch-100-0/00000000000000000000.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kafka kafka 380693 May 12 11:41 
/var/kafka2/f5ab8-batch-1000-0/00000000000000000000.log
{noformat}

[1] 
https://github.com/apache/kafka/commit/f5ab8e1780cf80f267906e3259ad4f9278c32d28 



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