At LinkedIn, we typically ran one Kafka instance per server. Thanks,
Jun On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Zhujie (zhujie, Smartcare) < first.zhu...@huawei.com> wrote: > Is there any principles? > > > -----邮件原件----- > 发件人: Jun Rao [mailto:jun...@gmail.com] > 发送时间: 2014年5月27日 11:25 > 收件人: users@kafka.apache.org > 主题: Re: how many instances of the broker is suggested in one server. > > The number of instances required will depend on the load. However, keep in > mind that all instances on a server will compete for memory (e.g., for > pagecache, jvm heap, etc), storage (log space) and CPU. > > Thanks, > > Jun > > > On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Zhujie (zhujie, Smartcare) < > first.zhu...@huawei.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I have one question, how many instances of the broker is suggested in > > one server? > > We start three instances, the performance will be three times faster > > than one instance. > > So how many instances should I start? > > > > > > Most appreciated > > > > zhujie > > > > > > > > >