Hi, On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Jay Kreps <jay.kr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes. Kafka doesn't use much in process memory, our 4GB is probably just > because no one bothered to tune it. But memory given to the JVM takes away > from the OS cache and will result in more disk I/O. >
So if we allocate 50% of memory to Kafka (e.g. 1GB out of a 2GB box), sound reasonable? As it is JVM, OOM is painful to deal with.. thanks.
