Each message size has a default limit of around 1 MB then, and multiple 
messages are batched together, presumably, up to some other default batch 
limit. 

Has anyone needed to increase the message limit to greater than 1 MB? If so, to 
what limit and were there any issues?

JP


On Nov 5, 2013, at 3:05 PM, Guozhang Wang <wangg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Shafaq is right, except the default value is 1000000 bytes, so a little bit
> less than 1MB.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Shafaq <s.abdullah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> The message is sent as serialized over wire so there is no concept of width
>> but only length.
>> 
>> The message size is specified in the broker config and default is 10 MB off
>> the top of my head to prevent OOM.
>> On Nov 5, 2013 1:06 PM, "Jason Pohl" <pohl.posit...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I am new to pub-sub architecture and am looking at Kafka to be a data
>> hub.
>>> 
>>> My question is there any limit to how wide a message should be in terms
>> of
>>> number of fields. Not so much an absolute limit or a theoretical one, but
>>> more of a practical limit.
>>> 
>>> What is the "widest" message that you typically process?
>>> 
>>> JP
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> -- Guozhang

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