Zookeeper 3.4.x is API compatible. However to get full benefits, we will have to change kafka code to use the batch API that zookeeper 3.4.x provides. Also, we use zkclient library to interface with zookeeper. We might have to patch that to use zookeeper 3.4.x APIs.
Thanks, Neha On May 20, 2013 9:36 AM, "Seshadri, Balaji" <balaji.sesha...@dish.com> wrote: > Hi Neha, > > Is moving to zookeeper 3.4.x is a big change ?. > > Can you please explain parts it affects consumer API for example ?. > > Thanks, > > Balaji > -----Original Message----- > From: Neha Narkhede [mailto:neha.narkh...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 7:35 AM > To: users@kafka.apache.org > Subject: RE: are commitOffsets botched to zookeeper? > > Upgrading to a new zookeeper version is not an easy change. Also zookeeper > 3.3.4 is much more stable compared to 3.4.x. We think it is better not to > club 2 big changes together. So most likely this will be a post 08 item for > stability purposes. > > Thanks, > Neha > On May 17, 2013 6:31 AM, "Withers, Robert" <robert.with...@dish.com> > wrote: > > > Awesome! Thanks for the clarification. I would like to offer my strong > > vote that this get tackled before a beta, to get it firmly into 0.8. > > Stabilize everything else to the existing use, but make offset updates > > batched. > > > > thanks, > > rob > > ________________________________________ > > From: Neha Narkhede [neha.narkh...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 7:17 AM > > To: users@kafka.apache.org > > Subject: RE: are commitOffsets botched to zookeeper? > > > > Sorry I wasn't clear. Zookeeper 3.4.x has this feature. As soon as 08 is > > stable and released it will be worth looking into when we can use > zookeeper > > 3.4.x. > > > > Thanks, > > Neha > > On May 16, 2013 10:32 PM, "Rob Withers" <reefed...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Can a request be made to zookeeper for this feature? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > rob > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Neha Narkhede [mailto:neha.narkh...@gmail.com] > > > > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 9:53 PM > > > > To: users@kafka.apache.org > > > > Subject: Re: are commitOffsets botched to zookeeper? > > > > > > > > Currently Kafka depends on zookeeper 3.3.4 that doesn't have a batch > > > write > > > > api. So if you commit after every message at a high rate, it will be > > slow > > > and > > > > inefficient. Besides it will cause zookeeper performance to degrade. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Neha > > > > On May 16, 2013 6:54 PM, "Rob Withers" <reefed...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > We are calling commitOffsets after every message consumption. It > > > > > looks to be ~60% slower, with 29 partitions. If a single > KafkaStream > > > > > thread is from a connector, and there are 29 partitions, then > > > > > commitOffsets sends 29 offset updates, correct? Are these offset > > > > > updates batched in one send to zookeeper? > > > > > > > > > > thanks, > > > > > rob > > > > > > > > >
