In the latest version, per-topic configs have been moved to Zookeeper you and set them using admin tools instead of writing the config files. Could you try trunk HEAD and see if this issue has already been resolved:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-554 Guozhang On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Ben Summer <bsum...@gnipcentral.com> wrote: > v0.8.0, (non-beta) downloaded from the website. Let me know if there is a > file I can check in the installation footprint that can give you an actual > change id. > > Is there a fix to this particular feature that you know was made in a later > build? > > Thanks for the quick response, > Ben > > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Guozhang Wang <wangg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello Ben, > > > > Which version are you using? > > > > Guozhang > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Ben Summer <bsum...@gnipcentral.com> > > wrote: > > > > > I tried using the following two retention properties > > > > > > log.retention.bytes=3221225472 > > > > > > > > > log.retention.bytes.per.topic=first_topic:1099511627776,second_topic:1099511627776 > > > > > > which I interpret to mean "by default, keep 3GB per topic partition, > > except > > > for first_topic and second_topic, which should retain 1TB each (across > > all > > > their partitions). > > > > > > I've noticed that the data for first_topic and second_topic grow way > > beyond > > > 1TB and no deletions occur. Is the syntax correct? > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > Ben > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > -- Guozhang > > > -- -- Guozhang
