This was fixed recently: https://github.com/apache/kafka/commit/bd5a1c4d368b9e91398e48400965d30d3045062e
Ismael On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 11:34 AM Michael Rubin <ira...@icloud.com.invalid> wrote: > (I am re-asking my SO question: > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60458132/default-values-for-max-request-size-and-message-max-bytes-seem-wrong > < > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60458132/default-values-for-max-request-size-and-message-max-bytes-seem-wrong > >) > > The default value for the Producer setting max.request.size is 1048576. > This controls the maximum size of a request (to a broker) in bytes. > > The default value for the Broker setting message.max.bytes is 1000012. > This controls the largest (record batch) size allowed (by the Kafka > server/broker). > > 1048576 > 1000012 > > It seems that the defaults are such that a Producer (with this default > value) could happen to produce a message which is larger than a Broker > (with this default value) will accept, resulting in MESSAGE_TOO_LARGE > errors. > > Am I misunderstanding these configuration settings? Or are the Kafka > defaults really such that it is possible to get MESSAGE_TOO_LARGE errors > with the default values? > > >
