No compression is configured, the spool files can be /usr/bin/strings'd to show the msgs.
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Guozhang Wang <wangg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Neil, > > Did you use any compression on your producers? > > Guozhang > > > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Neil Harkins <nhark...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi. >> I'm seeing some odd numbers from kafka.SocketServerStats. >> >> Ideally, I'd like to have stats broken down per-topic, e.g. >> what's our most written/read topics? For write rates, I've got >> a separate process iterating topics every minute, doing this: >> (head_offset_now - head_offset_last) / (time_now - time_last) >> and inserting that into graphite (was previously inserting the >> head_offset, but graphite's derivative() on 2000+ topics >> was a bit much). >> >> a graphite sumSeries() across them shows 20~25 MB/s >> on a single-instance kafka 0.7.2, which sounds correct, >> but when I compare that to the kafka.SocketServerStats >> we're collecting in graphite, derivative(TotalBytesWritten) >> shows 3.0GB/s, and BytesWrittenPerSecond shows >> 200KB/s, neither of which jive with my offset rate. >> >> Is anyone aware of any weirdness with those stats? >> >> thanks in advance for any insight, >> -neil > > > > > -- > -- Guozhang