The producer/consumer log compaction/retention can be set in log4j. Guozhang
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Monika Garg <gargmon...@gmail.com> wrote: > It means my free disk size will keep on reducing till Producer and Consumer > will be running?Is there any way to stop the increment in file size > (kafka-request.log)? > > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Well, the consumer keeps sending fetch requests even when there are no > more > > messages. Even fetch request will only block on the broker for up to > > max.wait.time. Also, the producer periodically issues metadata requests, > > which are also logged in kafka-request.log. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jun > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 2:20 AM, Monika Garg <gargmon...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > > > > I have created one node kafka cluster and one topic name test1. > > > Then I started ConsoleProducer and ConsoleConsumer.Both started > > > successfully.But what I see is in the /kafka/kafka_2.8.0-0.8.0/logs/ > > > directory > > > > > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 admin admin 5203 Jan 23 15:37 controller.log > > > *-rw-rw-r-- 1 admin admin 2589466 Jan 23 15:45 kafka-request.log* > > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 admin admin 2604 Jan 23 15:44 kafkaServer-gc.log > > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 admin admin 6505 Jan 23 15:40 server.log > > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 admin admin 2167 Jan 23 15:37 state-change.log > > > > > > The size of file *kafka-request.log* is continuously increasing even > > though > > > I am not giving any message to producer. > > > When I killed ConsoleConsumer and ConsoleProducer,the size of file > > > *kafka-request.log > > > *stopped increasing. > > > So I want to know the reason why this is(*kafka-request.log) *is only > > file > > > whose size is getting increased continuously even though no message is > > > given to produce or no message is consumed by consumer. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > *Moniii* > > > > > > > > > -- > *Moniii* > -- -- Guozhang
