Meaning, already read the doc, but couldn't relate, having large Heap for JVM will not help Now it all make sense. Many thanks. Bhanu
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 2:34 PM, chidigam . <bhanu.ki...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > >> > >
