When I using 32 partitions, the 4 brokers latency becomes larger than the 8 brokers latency.
So is it always true that using more brokers can give less latency when the number of partitions is at least the size of the brokers? Thanks. On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Yuheng Du <yuheng.du.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am running a producer latency test. When using 92 producers in 92 > physical node publishing to 4 brokers, the latency is slightly lower than > using 8 brokers, I am using 8 partitions for the topic. > > I have rerun the test and it gives me the same result, the 4 brokers > scenario still has lower latency than the 8 brokers scenarios. > > It is weird because I tested 1broker, 2 brokers, 4 brokers, 8 brokers, 16 > brokers and 32 brokers. For the rest of the case the latency decreases as > the number of brokers increase. > > 4 brokers/8 brokers is the only pair that doesn't satisfy this rule. What > could be the cause? > > I am using a 200 bytes message, the test let each producer publishes 500k > messages to a given topic. Every test run when I change the number of > brokers, I use a new topic. > > Thanks for any advices. >
