If those messages are part of the topic that is specified in the command line, then yes, they'll get deleted along with all the other messages in that topic.
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 4:38 PM, JIEFU GONG <jg...@berkeley.edu> wrote: > Thanks Foo, > > As a follow up, since I was considering that, if I originally published > messages under the topic 'test' with retention set to something like 168 > hours, successfully published some amount of messages to that topic (which > are then persisted on disk), and then changed the retention.ms as you > suggested, would that also affect the files that had been previously > configured to be retained for 168 hours? Thanks again! > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Foo Lim <foo....@vungle.com> wrote: > > > You can set the retention.ms to something really small, i.e. 60 > seconds, & > > kafka will delete everything older than 60 seconds (eventually). > > > > bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper zookeeper.yoursite.com --alter --topic > > your-topic --config retention.ms=60000 > > > > Remember to set it back to something sane after cleanup. > > > > Foo > > > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 4:30 PM, JIEFU GONG <jg...@berkeley.edu> wrote: > > > > > I'm running into an issue right now where after performing some tests > > I've > > > actually exhausted disk storage and am trying to clear it. This is a > > rather > > > naive question, but how would i go about manually purging my memory of > > all > > > the accumulated messages? I can't find a specific location as it seems > > like > > > I only configure the directory where logs are written, can anyone point > > me > > > in the right direction? Much appreciated! >
