Why do you need that many partitions or topics — what’s the business use case.
Rahul Singh Chief Executive Officer m 202.905.2818 Anant Corporation 1010 Wisconsin Ave NW, Suite 250 Washington, D.C. 20007 We build and manage digital business technology platforms. On Dec 10, 2018, 12:09 PM -0500, imamba <imamba_ka...@163.com>, wrote: > Hi, there, > We will deploy a large-scale kafka cluster using kafka 2.0.0 in production > environment recently, as JunRao recommend in cluster-limit lately, to > accommodate for the rare event of a hard failure of the controller, it is > better to limit each broker to have up to 4,000 partitions and each cluster > to have up to 200,000 partitions. We plan to possess 2k topics each with 4k > partitions and two-replicas, it is clearly reaching the cluster-wide limit > recommended in above blog. Can such a large-scale kafka cluster meet our > production demand well? > > > ps: broker hardware configuration described as follows: > 24 cores > 256G mem > 10Gbps nic > 22*4T sata disk > > > Any advise/guidance would be greatly appreciated! > Thanks!