Yes. This was added to get around the VIP hard killing connections that are idle. If your producer doesn't use a VIP you can set this high enough so it rarely reconnects.
Thanks, Neha On May 21, 2013 8:13 AM, "Jason Weiss" <jason_we...@rapid7.com> wrote: > Ahh - I see, thank you. > > Would you describe this as a "tunable" parameter to achieve higher > performance? For example, is it in a producer's interest to bump this > figure up to say 250,000 from 30,000? > > Thanks again for the prompt response! > > Jason > > > On 5/21/13 11:07 AM, "Jun Rao" <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >In 0.7, each producer reconnects to the broker periodically. Take a look > >at > >reconnect.interval in http://kafka.apache.org/07/configuration.html > > > >Thanks, > > > >Jun > > > > > >On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Jason Weiss <jason_we...@rapid7.com> > >wrote: > > > >> I've made some good progress on tuning Kafka for our needs, reaching > >>about > >> 40,000 events per second in our environment. One thing that I noticed in > >> all of the Kafka server logs is an inordinate amount (I think?) of > >>Closing > >> socket connection INFO statements. > >> > >> I realize they are INFO, so I assume they are expected. Can someone > >>point > >> me to a resource or provide a couple sentence overview on the socket > >> strategy here? I'm curious why 6 producer clients, each using 2 threads, > >> are opening and closing sockets so much. That's an expensive operation, > >>and > >> surely it affects performance since these connections are closing > >>anywhere > >> from 2 seconds to 30 seconds (seemingly randomly). > >> > >> Thanks! > >> > >> Jason > >> > >> > >> > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:07,726] INFO Closing socket connection to > >>/10.10.1.133. > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:08,583] INFO Closing socket connection to > >>/10.10.1.132. > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:08,930] INFO Closing socket connection to > >>/10.10.1.130. > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:09,599] INFO Closing socket connection to > >>/10.10.1.133. > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:10,310] INFO Closing socket connection to /10.10.1.67 > . > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:10,436] INFO Closing socket connection to > >>/10.10.1.131. > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:11,165] INFO Closing socket connection to > >>/10.10.1.134. > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:13,260] INFO Closing socket connection to /10.10.1.67 > . > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:13,591] INFO Closing socket connection to > >>/10.10.1.134. > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:20,988] INFO Closing socket connection to > >>/10.10.1.130. > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:22,361] INFO Closing socket connection to > >>/10.10.1.132. > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:22,459] INFO Closing socket connection to > >>/10.10.1.133. > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:23,915] INFO Closing socket connection to > >>/10.10.1.131. > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:24,068] INFO Closing socket connection to > >>/10.10.1.132. > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:24,947] INFO Closing socket connection to > >>/10.10.1.130. > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:26,168] INFO Closing socket connection to > >>/10.10.1.131. > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:26,534] INFO Closing socket connection to > >>/10.10.1.133. > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:26,536] INFO Closing socket connection to /10.10.1.67 > . > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:28,251] INFO Closing socket connection to > >>/10.10.1.134. > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:30,734] INFO Closing socket connection to /10.10.1.67 > . > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:31,322] INFO Closing socket connection to > >>/10.10.1.134. > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:40,833] INFO Closing socket connection to > >>/10.10.1.130. > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:41,107] INFO Closing socket connection to > >>/10.10.1.133. > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:43,123] INFO Closing socket connection to > >>/10.10.1.132. > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:43,169] INFO Closing socket connection to > >>/10.10.1.131. > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:43,221] INFO Closing socket connection to > >>/10.10.1.132. > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:45,833] INFO Closing socket connection to > >>/10.10.1.130. > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:47,143] INFO Closing socket connection to > >>/10.10.1.133. > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> [2013-05-21 14:31:48,199] INFO Closing socket connection to > >>/10.10.1.131. > >> (kafka.network.Processor) > >> > >> This electronic message contains information which may be confidential > >>or > >> privileged. 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