Re: Message Timeout

2014-06-27 Thread Neha Narkhede
You can control retention using "log.retention.hours", "log.retention.minutes" or "log.retention.bytes". On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 2:06 AM, cac...@gmail.com wrote: > Message retention in Kafka is disconnected from message consumption. > Messages are all persisted to disk and the queues do not nee

Re: Message Timeout

2014-06-27 Thread cac...@gmail.com
Message retention in Kafka is disconnected from message consumption. Messages are all persisted to disk and the queues do not need to fit in RAM unlike some other systems. There are configuration values that control maximum log size in terms of MB and the duration of retention which is typically in

Message Timeout

2014-06-27 Thread Klaus Schaefers
Hi, I am new to Kafka and I have a question how Kafka handles scenarios where no consumer is available. Can I configure Kafka in such a way that the messages will be dropped after x seconds? Otherwise I would be afraid that the queues would overflow... Cheers, Klaus -- -- Klaus Schaefers