Re: Anyone running kafka with a single broker in production? what about only 8GB ram?

2013-10-11 Thread Guozhang Wang
Hello, In most cases of Kafka, network bottleneck will be hit before the disk bottleneck. So maybe you want to check your network capacity to see if it has been saturated. Guozhang On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Bruno D. Rodrigues bruno.rodrig...@litux.org wrote: A 10/10/2013, às 23:14, S

Re: Anyone running kafka with a single broker in production? what about only 8GB ram?

2013-10-11 Thread Bruno D. Rodrigues
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Bruno D. Rodrigues bruno.rodrig...@litux.org wrote: My personal newbie experience, which is surely completely wrong and miss-configured, got me up to 70MB/sec, either with controlled 1K messages (hence 70Kmsg/sec) as well as with more random data (test

Re: Anyone running kafka with a single broker in production? what about only 8GB ram?

2013-10-11 Thread Magnus Edenhill
Make sure the fetch batch size and the local consumer queue sizes are large enough, setting them too low will limit your throughput to the broker-client latency. This would be controlled using the following properties: - fetch.message.max.bytes - queued.max.message.chunks On the producer side

Re: Anyone running kafka with a single broker in production? what about only 8GB ram?

2013-10-11 Thread Bruno D. Rodrigues
Producer: props.put(batch.num.messages, 1000); // 200 props.put(queue.buffering.max.messages, 2); // 1 props.put(request.required.acks, 0); props.put(producer.type, async); // sync // return ++this.count % a_numPartitions; // just round-robin

Re: Anyone running kafka with a single broker in production? what about only 8GB ram?

2013-10-11 Thread Kane Kane
I'm also curious to know what is the limiting factor of kafka write throughput? I've never seen reports higher than 100mb/sec, obviously disks can provide much more. In my own test with single broker, single partition, single replica: bin/kafka-producer-perf-test.sh --topics perf --threads 10

Anyone running kafka with a single broker in production? what about only 8GB ram?

2013-10-10 Thread S Ahmed
Is anyone out there running a single broker kafka setup? How about with only 8 GB RAM? I'm looking at one of the better dedicated server prodivers, and a 8GB server is pretty much what I want to spend at the moment, would it make sense going this route? This same server would also potentially be

Re: Anyone running kafka with a single broker in production? what about only 8GB ram?

2013-10-10 Thread Bruno D. Rodrigues
A 10/10/2013, às 23:14, S Ahmed sahmed1...@gmail.com escreveu: Is anyone out there running a single broker kafka setup? How about with only 8 GB RAM? I'm looking at one of the better dedicated server prodivers, and a 8GB server is pretty much what I want to spend at the moment, would it