Hi Eyal,

It’s unclear what warmup phase does in your use cases. Usually we see Flink 
start consume at high rate and drop to a point downstream can handle.

Thanks
Chen

> On May 10, 2020, at 12:25 AM, Eyal Pe'er <eyal.p...@startapp.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> Lately I've added more resources to my Flink cluster which required a restart 
> of all apps.
> From the cluster side, the only change I made, is to add more task slots.
> On the cluster I have a streaming app that consumes from Kafka and sinks to 
> files.
> I noticed that since the restart, the applications "warmup" has impacted 
> dramatically.
> Before, the change it took few minutes for the app to start and consume 
> normally (from my point of view, normally is a stable rate) - from 0 to 16K 
> events per second in 4 minutes.
> Now, after the change, it takes hours till it stabilizes on the normal 
> processing rate- from 0 to 12K events per second in 3 hours.
> The data source behavior hasn’t changed (same incoming rate, partitions, 
> servers etc.).
> I am aware to the backpressure mechanism in Flink, but it seems like it works 
> too slow here.
> Is there a way to speed or control it? 
>  
> Thanks a lot
> Eyal Peer

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