Hi John, The default for the C# client is actually 5ms, not that it really makes a difference. Are you able to share any of your producer code, especially around the configuration?
Kind regards, Liam Clarke On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 5:01 PM John Coleman <john...@central.tech> wrote: > Hi, > > We are using Confluent.Kafka (dotnet) and according to the docs the > linger.ms is default to 0.5ms which would cover a lot of serializations > since each occurs in < 10 microseconds. A typical transaction batch would > be 2 to 3 messages, occasionally more. > > Regards, > John > > On 14/11/20 05:24, "Gary Russell" <gruss...@vmware.com> wrote: > > Have you increased the producer linger.ms property [1] to ~1s? > (Default is 0 so records are sent immediately; it generally shouldn't be > more than a few ms - depending on how long your serialization takes). > > If not, perhaps your serialization (or compression) might be the > problem; best to profile the app to see where the time is being spent. > > [1]: > https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkafka.apache.org%2Fdocumentation%2F%23linger.ms&data=04%7C01%7CJohn.co%40central.tech%7Cee6e35911f484f03184208d88822d5e0%7C817e531d191b4cf58812f0061d89b53d%7C0%7C0%7C637409030504161229%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=t6XTDwN4QQs4kL5pMZzCSpcbjwMX95QrA8dzpDdrjyo%3D&reserved=0 > ________________________________ > From: John Coleman <john...@central.tech> > Sent: Friday, November 13, 2020 4:09 AM > To: users@kafka.apache.org <users@kafka.apache.org> > Subject: High latency for Kafka transactions > > Hi, > > We have very high latency ~1 second when we send a small number of > small messages to Kafka. The whole group of messages is less than 1k. We > are thinking better to just send the messages together as 1 message > containing a collection of all the messages. > > Is there something that we can tweak to reduce this latency? We have > 10 producers and they publish to a topic with 5 consumers. Be nice if we > don’t have to change our message structure. > > TIA > John > >