Depending on the consumer, I tend to work with c4 types and have found better success. Although we run about 200+ consumers per server on 16 core servers and see moderate load. YMMV On Oct 26, 2015 8:32 AM, "Jennifer Fountain" <jfount...@meetme.com> wrote:
> We installed four nodes (r3.xlarge) with approx 100 topics. Some topics > have a replication factor of 4, some have 3 and some have 2. Each node is > running about 90% cpu usage and we are seeing performance issues with > messages consumption. > > Would anyone have any words of wisdom or recommendations for AWS? Should > we add more nodes? What should be the replication factor for x amount of > nodes? > > Thank you! > > -- > > > Jennifer Fountain > DevOPS >