I assume this is 0.7. In 0.7, partitions are per broker. So, if you configure 100 partitions, each broker will have 100 partitions. In 0.8, partitions is at the cluster level and won't change when new brokers are added.
Thanks, Jun On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Ian Friedman <i...@flurry.com> wrote: > Hi guys, apologies in advance for the newb question: > > I am running a 3 broker setup, and I have a topic configured with 100 > partitions in the broker config. But I've noticed that what seems to happen > is that each broker gets 100 partitions and it looks kind of like this in > the consumer logs: 1-0, 1-1, 1-2, ... 1-99, 2-0, 2-1... etc. So the topic > actually has 300 partitions, 100 per broker? Why? How does this work with > the random partitioning scheme? I don't really understand the design behind > this and my reading of the documentation hasn't seemed to turn up anything > (though it's entirely possible I missed it). > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > Ian Friedman > >
