Btw, I've been running this patch in our cloud env and it's been working fine so far.
I actually filed another bug as I saw another problem on windows locally ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1036). Tim On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Jay Kreps <jay.kr...@gmail.com> wrote: > That would be great! > > -Jay > > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Timothy Chen <tnac...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Jay, > > > > I'm planning to test run Kafka on Windows in our test environments > > evaluating if it's suitable for production usage. > > > > I can provide feedback with the patch how well it works and if we > encounter > > any functional or perf problems. > > > > Tim > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Jay Kreps <jay.kr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Elizabeth and I have a patch to support our memory mapped offset index > > > files properly on Windows: > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1008 > > > > > > Question: Do we want this on 0.8 or trunk? I would feel more > comfortable > > > with it in trunk, but that means windows support in 0.8 is known to be > > > broken (as opposed to "not known to be broken but not known to be > working > > > either" since we are not doing aggressive system testing on windows). > > > > > > I would feel more comfortable doing the patch on 0.8 if there was > someone > > > who would be willing to take on real load testing and/or production > > > operation on Windows so we could have some confidence that Kafka on > > Windows > > > actually works, otherwise this could just be the tip of the iceberg. > > > > > > Also it would be great to get review on that patch regardless of the > > > destination. > > > > > > -Jay > > > > > >
