Yes, just like Jake said, the back pressure happened automatically and usually there is no need to tweak it, you actually can have configure the metrics about it, see [1]
[1] https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-stable/monitoring/back_pressure.html Best, Danny Chan 在 2020年7月31日 +0800 AM10:28,Jake <ft20...@qq.com>,写道: > > Hi Suraj Puvvada > > Yes, Flink back pressure depend on the Flink task buffer。process task will > sends buffer remaining size to source, source will slow down. > > https://www.ververica.com/blog/how-flink-handles-backpressure > > Jake > > > > On Jul 31, 2020, at 2:48 AM, Suraj Puvvada <su...@traceable.ai> wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > I am trying to understand if Flink has a mechanism to automatically apply > > any backpressure by throttling any operators ? For example if I have a > > Process function that reads from a Kafkaa source and writes to a Kafka > > sink. If the process function is slow will the kafka source be > > automatically throttled ? > > > > Thanks > > Suraj >