Re: Expected client producer/consumer CPU utilization when idle

2016-12-04 Thread Ewen Cheslack-Postava
If completely idle, producers shouldn't need to do anything beyond very infrequent metadata updates (once ever few minutes). Consumers, however, will have some ongoing work -- they will always issues fetch requests (to get more data) and heartbeats (to indicate they are still alive). But these shou

Expected client producer/consumer CPU utilization when idle

2016-12-01 Thread Niklas Ström
Hello all Can anyone say something about what CPU utilization we can expect for a producer/consumer process that is idle, i.e. not producing or consuming any messages? Should it be like 0%? What is your experience? We have a small program with a few kafka producers and consumers and we are concer