Milind, out of curiosity, how much experience do you have with Countandra, and how stable is it?
-Evan Carry your candle, run to the darkness Seek out the helpless, deceived and poor Hold out your candle for all to see it Take your candle, and go light your world On Feb 18, 2012, at 11:35 PM, Milind Parikh <milindpar...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am experimenting with Kafka to see if it can serve as a event buffer for > Countandra (www.countandra.org) and beyond that, into cascading counters. I > have setup Kafka on a local server Ubuntu 10.04, openjdk1.6 with default > installation of 0.7. > > *1. While the default console-producer, console-consumer paradigm works > great, when I try modiying the batch size > * > bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --batch-size 300 --zookeeper localhost:2181 > --topic test1 > > it gives me a > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NumberFormatException: null > at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:443) > at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:514) > at > scala.collection.immutable.StringLike$class.toInt(StringLike.scala:207) > at scala.collection.immutable.StringOps.toInt(StringOps.scala:31) > at kafka.utils.Utils$.getIntInRange(Utils.scala:189) > at kafka.utils.Utils$.getInt(Utils.scala:174) > at > kafka.producer.async.AsyncProducerConfigShared$class.$init$(AsyncProducerConfig.scala:45) > at kafka.producer.ProducerConfig.<init>(ProducerConfig.scala:25) > at kafka.producer.ConsoleProducer$.main(ConsoleProducer.scala:108) > at kafka.producer.ConsoleProducer.main(ConsoleProducer.scala) > > I have looked at the code and can't figure out what's wrong > > *2. When I do bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --timeout 30000 --zookeeper > localhost:2181 --topic test1 * > > I would think that console-producer would wait for 30s if the batch size > (default 200) is not full. It doesn't. It takes the same time without the > timeout parameter (default 1000) and dumps whatever the batch size. > > I am probably missing something here. Any pointers would be appreciated. > > Thanks > Milind
