Hi,

That is FlumeOG (0.9.X).  FlumeNG (1.X) as far as I am aware has no
limitation like that.

Brock

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:22 PM, S Ahmed <[email protected]> wrote:
> Brock,
>
> Doesn't this mean it is limited to 32k?
>
> https://github.com/apache/flume/blob/branch-0.9.5/flume-core/src/main/java/com/cloudera/flume/core/EventImpl.java#L39
>
>
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Brock Noland <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:51 AM, S Ahmed <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Could flume be used to store log data where payload sizes are 2-100K in
>> > size? (with the average being 25KB).
>>
>> Yes Flume could handle that size.
>>
>> >
>> > This data is collected from a website, so each request there will be a
>> > payload that needs to be stored (it is in XML format) and then every x
>> > seconds it should be persisted from memory to mysql/hdfs/disk.
>> >
>> > Is this an appropriate use case for flume?
>>
>> Sounds like it to me.
>>
>> >
>> > Can flume persist to things other than hdfs like mysql?
>>
>> You'd have to write a  MySQLSink or JDBCSink but yes that should work.
>>
>> Brock
>>
>> --
>> Apache MRUnit - Unit testing MapReduce -
>> http://incubator.apache.org/mrunit/
>
>



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