I've found this performance test. http://blog.liveramp.com/2013/04/08/kafka-0-8-producer-performance-2/
This performance test has mentioned about the same issue at the end. Thanks, Supun.. On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Supun Kamburugamuva <supu...@gmail.com> wrote: > The spikes happens without any correlation with the > log.flush.interval.message. > They happen more frequently. > > I'm using the latest version. I'm sending the messages to Kafka, then > there is a message receiver, it sends the same messages back through kafka > to original sender. The round trip latency is measured. > > Thanks, > Supun.. > > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Which version of Kafka did you use? When you say latency, do you mean the >> latency between the producer and consumer? If so, are you using a >> timestamp >> within the message to compute this latency? >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Magnus Edenhill <mag...@edenhill.se> >> wrote: >> >> > 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 >> > > >> > >> > > > > -- > 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 > > -- 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