The producer shell takes in a properties file. The default one that comes with Kafka (config/producer.properties) turns compression off. Can you cross check the value for compression.codec in your producer's properties file ?
Thanks, Neha On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Paul Garner <paul.gar...@rockaboxmedia.com> wrote: > I am using the kafka-proiducer-shell.sh script without the --compress option > > however my messages seem to be gzipped > > the docs say compression is off by default: > http://incubator.apache.org/kafka/configuration.html > > is it on by default now in 0.7.2?
