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 > > >
