Thank you for your explanation. And thank you for heka in general :).
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 8:52 PM, Rob Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/20/2015 12:46 AM, Cristian Falcas wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Is there a correlation between max_message_size and heka memory usage? >> > Yes, alas, Heka pre-allocates pools of messages. > >> We set max_message_size to 1MB and at startup heka consumes around 2.5GB >> of RAM. This seems pretty high for us. >> > If you really need your messages to be that big you can lower total memory > usage by setting the global `poolsize` config setting to something lower > than the default of 100. You'll also want to lower the plugin_chansize. Try > `poolsize = 40` and `plugin_chansize = 10` and see how that works out for > you. > > -r > >
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