That's right. The rule is that a log segment is deleted if either the size or the time limit is reached. Log sizes are per partition.
Thanks, Jun On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Cory Watson <gp...@keen.io> wrote: > Hello all! > > I'm curious about the interaction of server and topic level retention > settings. It's not clear to me the precedence of the follow: > > - broker's default log.retention.bytes > - topic's retention.bytes (which defaults to broker's > log.retention.bytes) > - broker's log.retention.hours and log.retention.minutes (if both are > specified then it seems to be the lower of the two, since it's when > "either" is exceeded) > > It seems that the rule is that when any of these are violated then the log > segment is deleted. Is this right? > > Also, just to be clear: The log sizes in questions are for a single > partitions logs? > > I have a situation where my per-topic retention.bytes is very high, but my > default log.retention.hours is lower (the default @ 168 hours). It seems > that it's truncating at the log.retention.hours instead of the topic's > retention.bytes. > > Am I understanding this correctly? :) > > -- > Cory Watson > Principal Infrastructure Engineer // Keen IO >
