Hi David, You can override the underlying consumer's `max.poll.records` setting for this. E.g. consumer.max.poll.records=500
Best, Shikhar On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 3:59 AM <david.frank...@bt.com> wrote: > Is there any way of limiting the number of events that are passed into the > call to the put(Collection<SinkRecord>) method? > > I'm writing a set of events to Kafka via a source Connector/Task and > reading these from a sink Connector/Task. > If I generate of the order of 10k events the number of SinkRecords passed > to the put method starts off very low but quickly rises in large increments > such that 9k events are passed to a later invocation of the put method. > > Furthermore, processing a large number of events in a single call (I'm > writing to Elasticsearch) appears to cause the source task poll() method to > timeout, raising a CommitFailedException which, incidentally, I can't see > how to catch. > > Thanks for any help you can provide, > David >