jayteej commented on code in PR #18080:
URL: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/18080#discussion_r1895864442


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clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/producer/ProducerConfig.java:
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@@ -147,8 +148,9 @@ public class ProducerConfig extends AbstractConfig {
                                                 + "of as analogous to Nagle's 
algorithm in TCP. This setting gives the upper bound on the delay for batching: 
once "
                                                 + "we get <code>" + 
BATCH_SIZE_CONFIG + "</code> worth of records for a partition it will be sent 
immediately regardless of this "
                                                 + "setting, however if we have 
fewer than this many bytes accumulated for this partition we will 'linger' for 
the "
-                                                + "specified time waiting for 
more records to show up. This setting defaults to 0 (i.e. no delay). Setting 
<code>" + LINGER_MS_CONFIG + "=5</code>, "
-                                                + "for example, would have the 
effect of reducing the number of requests sent but would add up to 5ms of 
latency to records sent in the absence of load.";
+                                                + "specified time waiting for 
more records to show up. This setting defaults to 5 (i.e. 5ms delay). 
Increasing <code>" + LINGER_MS_CONFIG + "=50</code>, "
+                                                + "for example, would have the 
effect of reducing the number of requests sent but would add up to 50ms of 
latency to records sent in the absence of load."

Review Comment:
   I have not changed the wording here. This is the same example with different 
values. I can change the wording also if you think it helps or isn't grokable?



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clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/producer/ProducerConfig.java:
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@@ -93,8 +93,9 @@ public class ProducerConfig extends AbstractConfig {
                                                  + "<p>"
                                                  + "Note: This setting gives 
the upper bound of the batch size to be sent. If we have fewer than this many 
bytes accumulated "
                                                  + "for this partition, we 
will 'linger' for the <code>linger.ms</code> time waiting for more records to 
show up. "
-                                                 + "This 
<code>linger.ms</code> setting defaults to 0, which means we'll immediately 
send out a record even the accumulated "
-                                                 + "batch size is under this 
<code>batch.size</code> setting.";
+                                                 + "This 
<code>linger.ms</code> setting defaults to 5, which means we'll wait 5ms for 
the accumulated "
+                                                 + "<code>batch.size</code> to 
fill as much as it can in this timeframe. This value previously defaulted"
+                                                 + "to 0, but over time we 
have observed that the IO overhead caused by smaller batches negates any 
latency gains.";

Review Comment:
   Will update



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