Hi Rammohan, How are you measuring "Kafka seems to be reserving most of the memory"?
Thanks, Steve On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 11:53 PM Rammohan Vanteru <ramz.moha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Users, > > As per the article here: > https://docs.confluent.io/current/kafka/deployment.html#memory memory > requirement is roughly calculated based on formula: write throughput*30 > (buffer time in seconds), which fits in our experiment i.e. 30MB/s*30~ > 900MB. Followup questions here: > > - How do we estimate the figure ’30 seconds’ for our buffer time? > - Kafka seems to be reserving most of the memory even when the none of > the messages are being streamed.. how does that play out. > > Any information provided would be helpful. > > Thanks, > Rammohan. >