vvcephei commented on a change in pull request #11003: URL: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/11003#discussion_r666503862
########## File path: docs/streams/developer-guide/config-streams.html ########## @@ -600,8 +613,34 @@ <h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id33">default.windowed.value.serde.inner</a><a <span id="streams-developer-guide-max-task-idle-ms"></span><h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id28">max.task.idle.ms</a><a class="headerlink" href="#max-task-idle-ms" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h4> <blockquote> <div> - The maximum amount of time a task will idle without processing data when waiting for all of its input partition buffers to contain records. This can help avoid potential out-of-order - processing when the task has multiple input streams, as in a join, for example. Setting this to a nonzero value may increase latency but will improve time synchronization. + <p> + In a task with multiple input partitions (as in a join or merge), this is the amount + of time to block processing to wait for new data to be produced to a partition we Review comment: I see what you mean. I also just noticed I've stacked up four prepositional phrases (!!!). I'll re-work it. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: jira-unsubscr...@kafka.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org