Hello Priya, You can find the definitions of these two configs here:
http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#brokerconfigs Guozhang On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Marc Labbe <mrla...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Priya > > my understanding is producer requests will be delayed (and put in request > purgatory) only if your producer uses ack=-1. It will be in the purgatory > (delayed) until all brokers have acknowledged the messages to be > replicated. The documentation suggests to monitor the > ProducerRequestPurgatory size metrics , but it only applies if you're using > ack=-1, otherwise, this value will always be 0. > > For consumer requests, they'll be in purgatory (delayed) until the max > allowed time to respond has been reached, unless it has enough messages to > fill the buffer before that. The request will not end up in the purgatory > if you're making a blocking request (max wait <= 0). > > Not sure about the configuration interval though. > > marc > > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Priya Matpadi < > priya.matp...@ecofactor.com > > wrote: > > > Hello, > > What is purgatory? I believe the following two properties relate to > > consumer and producer respectively. > > Could someone please explain the significance of these? > > fetch.purgatory.purge.interval.requests=100 > > producer.purgatory.purge.interval.requests=100 > > > > Thanks, > > Priya > > > -- -- Guozhang
