It is not recommended to install both kafka and zookeeper on the same box as both would fight for the available memory and performance will degrade.
Thanks Neha On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:29 AM, S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I like how kafka operates, but I'm wondering if it is possible to run > everything on a single ec2 instance with 7.5 GB RAM. > > So that would be zookeeper and a single kafka broker. > > I would have a separate server to consume from the broker. > > Producers would be from my web servers. > > > I don't want to complicate things as i don't really need failover or > redundancy etc. I just want to keep things simple. > > I'll have a single topic, and a few partitions because I want the guarantee > that the messages are in order. > > > Is this something that would be really out of the norm and not recommended? > i.e. nobody really uses it this way and who knows what is going to happen? > :) >
