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Joe Stein closed KAFKA-235.
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> Add a 'log.file.age' configuration parameter to force rotation of log files
> after they've reached a certain age
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> Key: KAFKA-235
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-235
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: core
> Affects Versions: 0.7
> Reporter: Mathias Herberts
> Assignee: Swapnil Ghike
> Fix For: 0.8, 0.7.2
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> The Kafka client has the ability to start consuming at an offset before or
> after a given point in time. The granularity of this offset is the log file
> as the Kafka servers do not keep track of arrival time of various messages.
> This means that the granularity of offsets relative to time depends on
> arrival rate of messages and thus of log file rotation. A topic with lots of
> messages will have its log files rotated very often (thus each spans a short
> time interval) whereas a topic with very few messages might not see its log
> files rotated for hours.
> In order to circumvent this granularity disparity, having a parameter that
> would force log file rotation after a certain delay (xxx ms) would allow for
> pretty much constant time granularity to be available at the cost of more
> file descriptor being used.
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