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Ismael Juma edited comment on KAFKA-2419 at 10/15/15 10:27 AM: --------------------------------------------------------------- [~aauradkar] [~jjkoshy] We are creating one thread per `Metrics` instance and we create one `Metrics` per consumer and per producer. Do we really want to create one garbage collection thread per consumer/producer? Also, I can't find any usages of `ExpireSensorTask` outside of tests: https://github.com/apache/kafka/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=ExpireSensorTask What am I missing? was (Author: ijuma): [~aauradkar] [~jjkoshy] We are creating one thread per `Metrics` instance and we create one `Metrics` per consumer and per producer. Do we really one to create one garbage collection thread per consumer/producer? Also, I can't find any usages of `ExpireSensorTask` outside of tests: https://github.com/apache/kafka/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=ExpireSensorTask What am I missing? > Allow certain Sensors to be garbage collected after inactivity > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-2419 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2419 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: New Feature > Affects Versions: 0.9.0.0 > Reporter: Aditya Auradkar > Assignee: Aditya Auradkar > Priority: Blocker > Labels: quotas > Fix For: 0.9.0.0 > > > Currently, metrics cannot be removed once registered. > Implement a feature to remove certain sensors after a certain period of > inactivity (perhaps configurable). -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)