The default value is false. https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/d5b43b19bb06e9cdc606312c8bcf87ed267daf44/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/producer/ProducerConfig.java#L232
On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 at 21:14 Franco Giacosa <fgiac...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I was going over the producer kafka configuration, and the > property block.on.buffer.full in the documentation says: > > "When our memory buffer is exhausted we must either stop accepting new > records (block) or throw errors. *By default this setting is true* and we > block, however in some scenarios blocking is not desirable and it is better > to immediately give an error. Setting this to false will accomplish that: > the producer will throw a BufferExhaustedException if a recrord is sent and > the buffer space is full." > > So theoretically it should be true, but in that same documentation ( > http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html) the table has a column called > "default" that points out that the default value is actually false. > > Which one is correct? > > Thanks. >
