Rebooting is not required for this config. After changing the configuration wait for the time as set for log.retention.check.interval.ms and then messages older than 1 hour should get deleted.
Thanks, Akhilesh On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 12:16 PM, Алексей Федосов <alekss...@yandex.ru> wrote: > Hello, > I've just started working with the product apache kafka and from time to > time I have different questions. Could you please clarify one moment - in > the configuration file servers.properties I change value of the parameter > log.retention.hours by 1. The new value of this parameter is applied > instantly, without needing to reboot kafka's server? Or it's a incorrect > assumption? The thing is I did not reboot kafka's service, however messages > in the kafka's topic were left (like they were before changing the value of > this parameter). Does this mean this parameter log.retention.hours is not > working without rebooting kafka's service or I am doing smth wrong? >
