My replication factor is 1. Thanks, Archie
On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Hans Jespersen <h...@confluent.io> wrote: > What replication factor are you using? If you have a default replication > factor = 3 then a publish rate of 1.4 Gbps is actually 1.4 Gbps *3 = 4.2 > Gbps of network traffic. If you are also consuming at the same time then > it’s actually 4.2 Gbps + 1.4 Gbps = 5.6 Gbps. > > You would completely saturate the network if you added a second producer > and consumer at those rates (if your storage system can keep up to the > network bandwidth). > > -hans > > > > > On Apr 1, 2017, at 10:25 AM, Archie <anubhavnidhi1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I have set up my kafka cluster in a network with 9.3 Gbps links. And am > > using the bin/kafka-producer-perf-test.sh script to test the throughput > > performance of kafka for a topic which has 1 partition. > > > > Right now I am only able to use 1.4 Gbps of network link, i.e. the script > > returns a throughput of 1.4 Gbps (179 MBps) > > > > My basic question is how can I increase the throughput of kafka to > > completely saturate the network? > > > > Thanks, > > Archie > >
