increase in latency with increase in number of partitions per broker

2020-11-17 Thread Dhirendra Singh
Hi, I am trying to measure throughput of my 3 broker kafka cluster. I have created a topic with 3 partitions spread equally over the 3 brokers. Run a producer application to produce messages. producer application has 3 thread (one for each partition) to produce. Then i increased the number of parti

Re: Number of Partitions Per Broker

2013-01-15 Thread Jun Rao
At LinkedIn, some of the high volume topics are configured with more than 1 partition per broker. Having more partitions increases I/O parallelism for writes and also increases the degree of parallelism for consumers (since partition is the unit for distributing data to consumers). On the other ha

Number of Partitions Per Broker

2013-01-14 Thread Andrew Psaltis
All, I was re-reading this: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Operations and noticed that the number of partitions is 1. Is this accurate? In our environment we are currently running 20+ partitions per topic - with two brokers, the gut feel was this would speed up our ability to