I think there is a misunderstanding here. The log file division is completely transparent to the consumer. The consumer consumes by offset (0,1,2,3,...) and these offsets span log files (i.e. there is a single, monotonically increasing set of offsets over all log files in a partition). In other words consumers ALWAYS consume across log files based on the position (offset) in the set of all logs in the partition.
If you want fewer log files change the settings so that the log files are bigger. However the only impact of this is fewer file handles, it won't impact the consumer in any way at all. Not sure if that helps... -Jay On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Jason Huang <jason.hu...@icare.com> wrote: > Number of open file handles is one thing. But I am thinking more of a use > case where you may want to fetch information from two separate log files of > same topic and same partition. Could we use one high level consumer API > call to achieve that? One naive idea is that if we can merge those two log > files (since they are of same topic and in partition I thought we might be > able to merge them) into one, then using one high level consumer API will > do the job. > > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Neha Narkhede > <neha.narkh...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> There is no way to merge those log files in 0.8. But why would you want to >> do that ? To reduce the number of open file handles ? >> >> Thanks, >> Neha >> >> On Thursday, April 18, 2013, Jason Huang wrote: >> >> > Just curious - given the situation above, if you have two sets of .log >> and >> > .index files under the same topic and same partition, is there any way to >> > merge these two sets of log files and index files? >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Swapnil Ghike <sgh...@linkedin.com> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > Otherwise if you are using the high level consumer >> > > (ZookeeperConsumerConnector) in code, you will have to start a new >> > > consumer with a different group id. >> > > >> > > Thanks, >> > > Swapnil >> > > >> > > On 4/18/13 2:09 AM, "Swapnil Ghike" <sgh...@linkedin.com> wrote: >> > > >> > > >Snehalata, >> > > > >> > > >Are you using the console consumer? You can pass a --from-beginning >> flag >> > > >to the console consumer to get all the messages posted to that topic. >> > > > >> > > >Thanks, >> > > >Swapnil >> > > > >> > > >On 4/18/13 1:32 AM, "Snehalata Nagaje" >> > > ><snehalata.nag...@harbingergroup.com> wrote: >> > > > >> > > >>Hi Neha, >> > > >> >> > > >>I was able to figure this out, this is happening due to time based >> > > >>rolling. >> > > >> >> > > >>But now problem, when I fetch the messages for particular topic, >> server >> > > >>is >> > > >>reading only one log file, returns those messages only. >> > > >> >> > > >>Is there any way I can combine all log files which are already >> produced >> > > >>into >> > > >>one, so that I can get all messages posted in that topic. >> > > >> >> > > >>Thanks, >> > > >>Snehalata >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >>-----Original Message----- >> > > >>From: Snehalata Nagaje [mailto:snehalata.nag...@harbingergroup.com] >> > > >>Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 11:41 AM >> > > >>To: users@kafka.apache.org >> > > >>Subject: RE: producer creating multiple log files after message >> sending >> > > >> >> > > >>Thanks Neha, >> > > >> >> > > >>-----Original Message----- >> > > >>From: Neha Narkhede [mailto:neha.narkh...@gmail.com] >> > > >>Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 9:08 PM >> > > >>To: users@kafka.apache.org >> > > >>Subject: Re: producer creating multiple log files after message >> sending >> > > >> >> > > >>Hi Snehalata, >> > > >> >> > > >>Would you grep through the log4j files for the topic under >> > > >>consideration and look for "Rolling.*due to". This will tell us why >> > > >>the log is getting rolled over. >> > > >> >> > > >>Thanks, >> > > >>Neha >> > > >> >> > > >>On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Snehalata Nagaje >> > > >><snehalata.nag...@harbingergroup.com> wrote: >> > > >>> Hi, >> > > >>> >> > > >>> >> > > >>> >> > > >>> I am using kafak 0.8 version and sending messages to kafka server >> > using >> > > >>> below code, >> > > >>> >> > > >>> >> > > >>> >> > > >>> Producer<Integer, String> producer = new Producer<Integer, >> > String>(new >> > > >>> ProducerConfig(props)); >> > > >>> >> > > >>> producer.send(new KeyedMessage(topicName,partitionKey,jsonString)); >> > > >>> >> > > >>> producer.close(); >> > > >>> >> > > >>> >> > > >>> >> > > >>> I am able to post messages with, but after certain days, kafka >> > creating >> > > >>> multiple log files, messages are posted in new log file, although >> old >> > > >>>file >> > > >>> size is very less. >> > > >>> >> > > >>> >> > > >>> >> > > >>> What can be the reason for creating multiple log files? Does >> message >> > > >>format >> > > >>> matters while sending message to kafka? >> > > >>> >> > > >>> >> > > >>> >> > > >>> Thanks, >> > > >>> >> > > >>> Snehalata >> > > >>> >> > > >>> >> > > >>> Disclaimer: >> > > >>> This e-mail may contain Privileged/Confidential information and is >> > > >>intended on >>
