What to set KafkaIndexingService taskDuration to?

2018-04-04 Thread Dylan Wylie
Hey all, With the Kafka Indexing Service now supporting incremental handoffs how are folks configuring the taskDuration of the kafka indexing service? If the service was ingesting hourly data into hourly segments, would there be any downside to setting the taskDuration to one or more days? Or eve

Re: What to set KafkaIndexingService taskDuration to?

2018-04-04 Thread Gian Merlino
Hi Dylan, "Forever" is still not ideal due to the fact that task logs are not rotated until tasks exit, and they can get unwieldy. But you can safely run with longer durations. I haven't seen anyone doing days, but I have seen a few people doing 4-8 hours and that works fine. On Wed, Apr 4, 2018