I forgot to add that I'm using Kafka and Kafka-streams 10.1.1. V.
On 2017-05-16 15:58 (+0200), Vincent Bernardi <vinc...@kameleoon.com> wrote: > Hi, > I'm running an experimental Kafka Stream Processor which accumulates lots > of data in a StateStoreSupplier during transform() and forwards lots of > data during punctuate (and deletes it form the StateStoreSupplier). I'm > currently using a persistent StateStore, meaning that Kafka Streams > provides me with a RocksDB instance which writes everything on disk. The > average amount of data that I keep in my StateStore at any time is at most > 1GB. > > My problem is that it seems that this data is never really deleted, as if > no compaction never happened: the directory size for my RocksDB instance > goes ever up and eventually uses up all disk space at which point my > application crashes (I've seen it go up to 60GB before I stopped it). > > Does anyone know if this can be a normal behaviour for RocksDB? Is there > any way that I can manually log or trigger RocksDB compactions to see if > that is my problem? > > Thanks in advance for any pointer, > V. >