Just to make it clear Haitao, in your case you do not have to restart brokers
(since you are changing at the topic level).
On 8/6/17, 11:37 PM, "Kaufman Ng" <kauf...@confluent.io> wrote:
Hi Haitao,
The retention time (retention.ms) configuration can exist as a broker-level
and/or topic-level config. For the latter, changing it does NOT require
broker restarts.
On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 10:33 PM, haitao .yao <yao.e...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I want to change the retention time for a specific topic with the
> following command:
>
> $ bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper zk_address --alter --topic
> test-topic --config retention.ms=86400000
>
> Is that correct? Do I have to restart the brokers?
> I read the source code and thought the configuration values about
retention
> time in LogManager are static:
> https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/0.10.0/core/src/
> main/scala/kafka/server/KafkaServer.scala#L597-L620
>
> Kafka version: kafka_2.11-0.10.0.1
>
> Thanks
> --
> haitao.yao
>
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