>From my understanding, the executors without a partition to read remain idle. Its recommended for efficiency to set the number of executors to the number of partitions.
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Kashyap Mhaisekar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Is the no. of executors for KafkaSpout dependent on the partitions for the > topic? > For E.g., > Say kafka TopicA has 5 partitions. > If I have a KafkaSpout that has the parallelism hint set to 10, will all > the executors get the data? Or am i constrained by the no. of partitions > declared for the topic? > > Regards, > Kashyap >
