These changes did help a lot. Now I dont see any failed acks for alsmot 70k
data load. Thanks a lot for your help.

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Kushan Maskey
817.403.7500


On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Kushan Maskey <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Also FYI, I do not have any failure in any of my bolts. So I am guessing
> it has to do with the amount of message that the spout is trying to read
> form kafka.
>
> as per the document by Michael Noll I am trying to see if setting up the
> config as per suggestion as
>
> config.put(Config.TOPOLOGY_RECEIVER_BUFFER_SIZE,             8);
>
>  config.put(Config.TOPOLOGY_TRANSFER_BUFFER_SIZE,            32);
>
>  config.put(Config.TOPOLOGY_EXECUTOR_RECEIVE_BUFFER_SIZE, 16384);
>
>  config.put(Config.TOPOLOGY_EXECUTOR_SEND_BUFFER_SIZE,    16384);
>
>
> Let me know if any of you have any suggestion. Thanks.
>
> --
> Kushan Maskey
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Kushan Maskey <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I started looking into setting up internal message buffer as mentioned in
>> this link.
>>
>> http://www.michael-noll.com/blog/2013/06/21/understanding-storm-internal-message-buffers/#how-to-configure-storms-internal-message-buffers
>>
>> I found out that my message size could be as big as 10K. So does that
>> mean that I should set the buffer size about 10K?
>>
>> --
>> Kushan Maskey
>> 817.403.7500
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Kushan Maskey <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, Michael,
>>>
>>> How do you verify the reliability of the KafkaSpout? I am using the
>>> KafkaSpout that came with storm 0.9.2. AFAIK kafkaSpout is quite reliable.
>>> I am guessing it the processing time for each record in the bolt. Yes form
>>> the log I do see few Cassandra exceptions while inserting the records.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kushan Maskey
>>> 817.403.7500
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Michael Rose <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Kushan,
>>>>
>>>> Depending on the Kafka spout you're using, it could be doing different
>>>> things when it failed. However, if it's running reliably, the Cassandra
>>>> insertion failures would have forced a replay from the spout until they had
>>>> completed.
>>>>
>>>> Michael Rose (@Xorlev <https://twitter.com/xorlev>)
>>>> Senior Platform Engineer, FullContact <http://www.fullcontact.com/>
>>>> [email protected]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Kushan Maskey <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have set up topology to load a very large volume of data. Recently I
>>>>> just loaded about 60K records and found out that there are some failed 
>>>>> acks
>>>>> on few spouts but non on the bolts. Storm completed running and seem to
>>>>> look stable. Initially i started with a lesser amount of data like about
>>>>> 500 records  successfully and then increased up to 60K where i saw the
>>>>> failed acks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Questions:
>>>>> 1. Does that mean that the spout was not able to read some messages
>>>>> from Kafka? Since there are no failed ack on the bolts as per UI, what 
>>>>> ever
>>>>> the message received has been successfully processed by the bolts.
>>>>> 2. how do i interpret the numbers of failed acks like this acked:315500
>>>>>  and failed: 2980.
>>>>> Does this mean that 2980 records failed to be processed? Is this is
>>>>> the case then, how do I avoid this from happening because I will be 
>>>>> loosing
>>>>> 2980 records.
>>>>> 3. I also see that few of the records failed to be inserted into
>>>>> Cassandra database. What is the best way to reprocess the data again as it
>>>>> is quite difficult to do it through the batch process that I am currently
>>>>> running.
>>>>>
>>>>> LMK, thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Kushan Maskey
>>>>> 817.403.7500
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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