Re: producers limit

2014-03-27 Thread Neha Narkhede
What is the performance overhead if we don't use batching? It can be very significant. I'm not sure if we have published performance numbers for the new producer yet, but you can see the 0.8 producer throughput numbers here - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Performance+testing#P

Re: producers limit

2014-03-26 Thread Kane Kane
I have a possibly related question: In a batch sending mode it's possible that messages are lost if producer dies while accumulating the batch. What is the performance overhead if we don't use batching? Thanks. On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Jagbir wrote: > Hi Neha, > > Thank you for the nu

Re: producers limit

2014-03-26 Thread Jagbir
Hi Neha, Thank you for the numbers as this information helped me to size my project as well. While we are on this topic, do you mind commenting on the maximum number of topics that can be hosted on a 8-10 node cluster. We have a need for about 100k topics and similar number of producers and

Re: producers limit

2014-03-25 Thread Neha Narkhede
You shouldn't have any problem with that. We frequently have 10s of thousands of producer connections to a 8-10 node cluster at all times. You might have to bump up the limit for the number of open file handles per broker though. Thanks, Neha On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Kane Kane wrote: >

producers limit

2014-03-25 Thread Kane Kane
Is there a recommended cap for the concurrent producers threads? We plan to have around 4000 connections across cluster writing to kafka, i assume there shouldn't be any performance implications related to that? Thanks.