rule to set number of brokers for each server

2014-11-28 Thread Sa Li
Dear all I am provision production kafka cluster, which has 3 servers, I am wondering how many brokers I should set for each servers, I set 3 brokers in dev clusters, but I really don't what is the advantages to set more than 1 broker for each server, what about 1 broker for each server, totally 3

Re: rule to set number of brokers for each server

2014-11-28 Thread Joe Stein
Unless you are using some containerized implementation setting more than one broker on a server is likely going defeat some of the benefit Kafka brings with how it leverages page cache (more on that here https://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#maximizingefficiency). You also need to think about

Re: rule to set number of brokers for each server

2014-11-28 Thread Gwen Shapira
I don't see any advantage to more than one broker per server. In my experience a single broker is capable of saturating the network link and therefore I can't see how a second or third brokers will give any benefits. Gwen On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Sa Li wrote: > Dear all > > I am provisio