Yes, what you did is correct. See details in https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/FAQ#FAQ-Whyisdatanotevenlydistributedamongpartitionswhenapartitioningkeyisnotspecified ?
It seems that it doesn't work all the time. What version of Kafka are you using? Thanks, Jun On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Mungeol Heo <mungeol....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question about 'topic.metadata.refresh.interval.ms' > configuration. > As I know, the default value of it is 10 minutes. > Does it means that producer will change the partition at every 10 minutes? > What I am experiencing is producer does not change to another > partition at every 10 minutes. > Sometime, It never changed during the process which costs about 25 minutes. > I also changed the value of it to 1 minute for testing. > It looks like working well at first time. > However, same problem happens start from second test. > Sometime, it takes more than 10 minutes to change the partition even > if I set the value as 1 minute. > Am i missing something? > Any help will be great. > > Thanks. >
