Great. Thanks all. But there is no easy way to change partitions once the topic is created right? I run kafka 0.8.2 and its a difficult job to reassign partitions.
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Clark Haskins < chask...@linkedin.com.invalid> wrote: > You can have more partitions than machines in the cluster, you cannot > however have a replication factor that is great than the number of > machines in the cluster. > > You could easily have a topic with 100 partitions on a 3 node cluster. > > -Clark > > > Clark Elliott Haskins III > LinkedIn DDS Site Reliability Engineer > Kafka, Zookeeper, Samza SRE > Mobile: 505.385.1484 > BlueJeans: https://www.bluejeans.com/chaskins > > > chask...@linkedin.com > https://www.linkedin.com/in/clarkhaskins > There is no place like 127.0.0.1 > > > > > On 7/23/14, 2:14 PM, "Kashyap Mhaisekar" <kashya...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >HI, > >Is the maximum no. of partitions for a topic dependent on the no. of > >machines in a kafka cluster? > >For e.g., if I have 3 machines in a cluster, can I have 5 partitions with > >a > >caveat that one machine can host multiple partitions for a given topic? > > > >Regards, > >Kashyap > >
