In addition, in my experience, a memory heap > 8 GB leads to long GC pauses which causes the ISR statuses to constantly change, leading to an unstable cluster.
--John On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 4:30 AM, chidigam . <bhanu.ki...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > >> > > >> > > > > >
