Re: New consumer - offset storage options

2015-08-01 Thread Jiangjie Qin
Yes. That is correct. New consumer will only store offsets in Kafka. On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Stevo Slavić wrote: > Hello Apache Kafka community, > > It seems new high level consumer coming in 0.8.3 will support only offset > storage in Kafka topic. > Can somebody please confirm/comment?

Re: Regarding using of apache kafka

2015-08-01 Thread Jiangjie Qin
Since Kafka's performance largely depends on the operating system page cache. So usually people want to use dedicated machines for Kafka. But that depends on your performance requirement as well. If you only have 5 million messages per month, I think letting Kafka share the machines with other syst