Re: How does Kafka write to the pagecache/pagetable ?

2025-03-06 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
Hi Guang, Thanks so much for the quick response. However I have one question, a lot of material on the web says Kafka writes to the pagecache. Then does that mean java.nio.GatheringByteChannel.write(buffer) actually writes to the pagecache ? I only ask because this is not mentioned in the docs:

Re: How does Kafka write to the pagecache/pagetable ?

2025-03-06 Thread Raphael Mazelier
> Then it's just a normal file write where Kafka does not have any control. > Am I correct? Yes. > I am just wondering why then put in the documentation: > "Kafka writes to the pagecache" Indeed Kafka makes marketing on top of standard OS features. > I feel that it's misleading as to what it ac

Re: How does Kafka write to the pagecache/pagetable ?

2025-03-06 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
On Thu, 6 Mar 2025, 9:46 pm Raphael Mazelier, wrote: > Kafka didn't write to the pagecache. Actually no-one can only the > underlying OS. > > -- > Raph > Then it's just a normal file write where Kafka does not have any control. Am I correct? I am just wondering why then put in the documentatio