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Stevo Slavic commented on KAFKA-598: ------------------------------------ Curious, does new consumer coming in 0.9.0.0 allow easier detecting of "there's larger message then fetch size" situation, and using different fetch size for different requests programmatically? > decouple fetch size from max message size > ----------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-598 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-598 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Components: core > Affects Versions: 0.8.0 > Reporter: Jun Rao > Assignee: Joel Koshy > Priority: Blocker > Labels: p4 > Attachments: KAFKA-598-v1.patch, KAFKA-598-v2.patch, > KAFKA-598-v3.patch > > > Currently, a consumer has to set fetch size larger than the max message size. > This increases the memory footprint on the consumer, especially when a large > number of topic/partition is subscribed. By decoupling the fetch size from > max message size, we can use a smaller fetch size for normal consumption and > when hitting a large message (hopefully rare), we automatically increase > fetch size to max message size temporarily. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)