Does the following help? https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/FAQ#FAQ-HowdoIchoosethenumberofpartitionsforatopic ?
Thanks, Jun On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Tom Amon <ta46...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm trying to tune the log retention size and have a question. > > I have a replication factor of 3 on a cluster of 5 brokers. How many > partitions will a broker host? Is there any way to tell? Or do I have to > assume that each broker will host all partitions and size accordingly? > > Thanks much for the help. >