Hi, do these spikes happen to correlate with log.flush.interval.messages or log.flush.interval.ms? If so it's the file system sync blockage you are seeing.
/Magnus 2014-06-18 16:31 GMT+02:00 Supun Kamburugamuva <supu...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > We are trying to evaluate Kafka for a real time application. We are sending > 50 Kb messages at a fixed rate. The normal messages have a reasonable > latency. But then there are these outliers that takes unpredictable amount > of time. This causes the average latency to increase dramatically. We are > running with basically the default configuration. Any suggestions for > improving the latency? > > Thanks in advance, > Supun.. > > -- > Supun Kamburugamuva > Member, Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org > E-mail: supu...@gmail.com; Mobile: +1 812 369 6762 > Blog: http://supunk.blogspot.com >
