Hey Nikhil, When using Avro Datafiles, you perhaps need to tweak its sync-interval to affect compression chunk sizes: http://avro.apache.org/docs/1.6.3/api/java/org/apache/avro/file/DataFileWriter.html#setSyncInterval(int)
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:53 PM, snikhil0 <snik...@telenav.com> wrote: > I am experimenting with Avro and snappy and want to plot the size of the > compressed avro datafile as a function of varying compression block size. I > am doing this by setting the configuration value for > "io.compression.codec.snappy.buffersize". Unfortunately, this is not > working: or more precisely for buffer sizes 256K to 2MB I get the same size > output avro (snappyfied) data file. What am I missing? Someone had success > with this? > > Thanks, > Nikhil > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-avro.679487.n3.nabble.com/Avro-Snappy-changing-blocksize-of-snappy-compression-tp3920732p3920732.html > Sent from the Avro - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Harsh J