We put a lot of info here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Operations
Does that help? -Jay On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 7:14 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the wild, what sort of memory usage patterns have you guys seen with > kafka? > > I'm not that well versed with java and its memory/gc issues, what have you > guys experienced with your production brokers? (assuming consumers and > producers are not that much of an issue). > > How do you determine how much memory to allocate to a given broker? Is it > based on factors such as: > > 1. producers are mostly using batch versus single messages > 2. messages per second > 3. size of message payload > 4. # of consumers connecting to a given broker > etc. > > Is there a "magic" forumula? >
