Re: Is there a limitation on the number of simultaneous consumer connections to the same topic

2013-05-13 Thread Ming Li
ing more processes than partitions will mean those other > processes are idle. > > > > > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Ming Li wrote: > > > Hi Andrea, > > > > Thanks for your reply~~ you mean, it is no difference between > > having N threads share

Re: Is there a limitation on the number of simultaneous consumer connections to the same topic

2013-05-13 Thread Ming Li
ed only to one consumer. > > Maybe I'm wrong but I believe in that scenario there's no difference (from > broker perspective) between threads and processes. > > Regards, > Andrea > > > On 05/13/2013 12:15 PM, Ming Li wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Does

Is there a limitation on the number of simultaneous consumer connections to the same topic

2013-05-13 Thread Ming Li
Hi, Does Kafka have a limitation on the simultaneous connections (created with Consumer.createJavaConsumerConnector) for the same topic within the same group? My scenario is I need to consume a topic from different process (not thread), so I need to create lots of high level consumers. Best Reg