Hi Nicos, Setting it to Long.MAX_VALUE makes watermark always smaller than timestamp. In this case, the event time window will never be triggered. It is meaningless.
Best, Hequn On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 11:17 PM Nicos Maris <nicos.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > > Does maxOutOfOrderness > <https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-stable/dev/event_timestamps_watermarks.html#with-periodic-watermarks> > affect performance? > > Setting it to Long.MAX_VALUE doesn't affect performance, so either flink > is really fast in my simple pipeline or my understanding is terribly wrong > :p >