I am looking to understand the RAM usage of kafka cluster I have the following running
VM -1 (3.75GB RAM) kafka-server 1 VM-2 (3.75 GB RAM) kafka-server 2 I have one topic created. Prior to any message in the topic - RAM used by kafka server process was around 8%. I pushed around 200000 messages on the topic within a span of couple of hours - Its been almost 20 hours since the messages were pushed. I see that right now the kafka server process is using around 30% of memory. Why is so much of memory being used ? Can someone help me understand how to optimize it. Thanks Birendra