Re: clarification of the per-topic retention.bytes setting

Hi David, The "per-topic" configs will just override the global configs for that specific topic; for the retention.bytes config it will be applied to all partitions of that topic. So if you have two topics each with two partitions and replication factor 1 with retention.bytes valued A then the to

clarification of the per-topic retention.bytes setting

Hi list, please help me understand the per-topic retention.* setting (in kafka 0.8.1.1) done by: bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper $ZK --alter --topic $TOPIC --config retention.bytes=VALUE I understand from this: http://search-hadoop.com/m/4TaT4E9f78/retention.bytes&subj=estimating+log+retent