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Matthias J. Sax commented on KAFKA-8201:
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{quote}Another question here : Why use infinite retention and cleanup.policy
delete instead of log compaction for this case?
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Compaction does not make sense for repartition topics, because they are just
use to "shuffle" data. We use infinite retention to guard against data loss, in
case the application is offline for a longer period of time. Internally, Kafka
Streams uses purge-data API to delete processed data to avoid that the
repartition topics grow unbounded.
> Kafka streams repartitioning topic settings crashing multiple nodes
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> Key: KAFKA-8201
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-8201
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: streams
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0
> Reporter: Anders Aagaard
> Priority: Major
>
> We had an incident in a setup using kafka streams version 2.0.0 and kafka
> version 2.0.0 protocol version 2.0-IV1. The reason for it is a combination of
> kafka streams defaults and a bug in kafka.
> Info about the setup: Streams application reading a log compacted input
> topic, and performing a groupby operation requiring repartitioning.
> Kafka streams automatically creates a repartitioning topic with 24 partitions
> and the following options:
> segment.bytes=52428800, retention.ms=9223372036854775807,
> segment.index.bytes=52428800, cleanup.policy=delete, segment.ms=600000.
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> This should mean we roll out a new segment when the active one reaches 50mb
> or is older than 10 mniutes. However, the different timestamps coming into
> the topic due to log compaction (sometimes varying in multiple days) means
> the server will see a message which is older than segments.ms and
> automatically trigger a new segment roll out. This causes a segment
> explosion. Where new segments are continuously rolled out.
> There seems to be a bug report for this server side here :
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4336.
> This effectively took down several nodes and a broker in our cluster.
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