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Steven,
We initially set the rolling criterion based on hours to avoid too frequent
log rolling and in turn too small segment files. For your case this may be
reasonable to set the rolling criterion on minutes. Could you file a JIRA?
Guozhang
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Steven Wu <stevenwu@netflix.com.invalid>
wrote:
> This might be a bit unusual. We have a topic that we only need to keep last
> 5 minutes of msgs so that replay from beginning is fast.
>
> Although retention.ms has time unit of minute, segment.ms ONLY has time
> unit of hour. If I understand cleanup correctly, it can only delete files
> that are rolled over. If true, the minimal retention period can be actually
> one hour.
>
> is there any particular reason for different time units for retention and
> roll? Can we add "log.roll.minutes"?