Hi , - Do you have adequate CPU cores allocated to handle increased partitions ,generally if you have Kafka partitions >=(greater than or equal to) CPU Cores Total (Number of Executor Instances * Per Executor Core) ,gives increased task parallelism for reader phase. - However if you have too many partitions but not enough cores ,it would eventually slow down the reader (Ex: 100 Partitions and only 20 Total Cores). - Additionally ,the next set of transformation will have there own partitions ,if its involving shuffle ,sq.shuffle.partitions then defines next level of parallelism ,if you are not having any data skew,then you should get good performance.
Regards, Shahbaz On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 12:58 PM JF Chen <darou...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a Spark Streaming application which reads data from kafka and save > the the transformation result to hdfs. > My original partition number of kafka topic is 8, and repartition the data > to 100 to increase the parallelism of spark job. > Now I am wondering if I increase the kafka partition number to 100 instead > of setting repartition to 100, will the performance be enhanced? (I know > repartition action cost a lot cpu resource) > If I set the kafka partition number to 100, does it have any negative > efficiency? > I just have one production environment so it's not convenient for me to do > the test.... > > Thanks! > > Regard, > Junfeng Chen >