an unbounded buffer has no specified bounds. It will just grow until the application runs out of heap.
"spill to disk" and "shut down when full" are both bounded. You specify some limits on the size of the buffer or the number of keys, and it either shuts down gracefully or switches to disk when it runs out of space. [ Full content available at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/5567 ] This message was relayed via gitbox.apache.org for [email protected]
