Thanks Phillip. I used the kafka-topic.sh to create the topic to have 1 partition. Would the changing the server properties still work in this case?
Also this setting sounds like a global overwrite, correct? regards, Cal On Jul 4, 2013, at 11:49 AM, Philip O'Toole <phi...@loggly.com> wrote: > If you can pause your Producers, simply change the partition count to > 10 in the Kafka server properties file, and restart it. If you use the > high-level consumer, it will automatically start draining all > partitions that exist for a given topic. > > And our Kafka producers always write to partition -1 for a given > topic, meaning they never care about the partition count, and need no > changes in circumstances like this. > > Philip > > On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Calvin Lei <ckp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi I have a few topics created with 1 partition. After running the cluster >> for a few days, I want to increase the partition to 10 to improve the >> consumer throughput. I learnt that it is not supported in 0.8. >> >> What is the recommendation of improving consumer throughput after a topic >> is created and the data volume increased? >> >> Regards, >> Cal
