Hi Jakub,
Thank you very much. I have read this concept I/O cache in design section.
But couldn't connect the dots.

Regards
Bhanu

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Jakub Scholz <ja...@scholz.cz> wrote:

> This is probably because Kafka uses quite heavily the disk cache maintained
> by the operating system instead of storing messages in the JVM memory. So
> the requirements for the heap memory can be fairly small. The design
> section of the documentation describes the details:
> http://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#design
>
> Jakub
>
> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 9:30 AM, chidigam . <bhanu.ki...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> > I have basic question on Kafka JVM configuration, in most of forums I
> have
> > seen max heap as 8GB.  Why it is not recommended beyond that. Is there
> any
> > design limitation ?
> > Any help in this regards is highly appreciated.
> >
> > Regards
> > Bhanu
> >
>

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