Kafka does not have per topic quotas to limit bandwidth usage yet. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-656 is filed to look into this feature. What you can limit per topic is size on disk. Does that answer your question ?
Thanks, Neha On Apr 30, 2013 2:58 AM, "Arjun Harish" <arjun.har...@fluturasolutions.com> wrote: > Hi > > I have a kafka cluster partitioned based on message topic. My question is > if one of the topics get a lot of messages than usual (i mean a lot to use > up a lot of resources) and one of the other topics is coming at normal > rate, does kafka ensure that the messages in the latter topic reach the > consumer(Its a pull at the consumer)? > > Regards > Arjun Harish Nadh >