GitHub user nepal opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1683
KAFKA-2063: Add possibility to bound fetch response size Details are: 1. Protocol is extended with new version of FetchRequest with extra parameter limit_bytes. 2. New config setting fetch.limit.bytes is added. It is set to zero by default (which means "no limit"), so we preserve old behaviour by default 3. When broker receives FetchRequest with limit_bytes != 0, it performs random shuffle of partitions before reading is started. This way we can ensure that no starvation can happen for "slow" partitions 4. For each partition we read up to max_bytes requested for this partition, even if current value of limit_bytes is greater than zero but less than max_bytes. This way we can properly handle case when next message in given partition is larger than current value of limit_bytes. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/nepal/kafka fetch-request-add-limit Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1683.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #1683 ---- commit 4f703539bcd46058d036bafd300b98a93dec26a5 Author: Andrey L. Neporada <anepor...@yandex-team.ru> Date: 2016-07-29T12:28:07Z KAFKA-2063: Add possibility to bound fetch response size ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---