[KAFKA-118] Producer performance tool should use the new blocking async producer instead of the sleep timeout hack

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.7
• Fix Version/s: 0.7
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Neha Narkhede
• Created: 24/Aug/11 00:13
• Updated: 13/Sep/11 01:31
• Resolved: 13/Sep/11 01:31

Description

Before the blocking async producer feature, if you add new data to the async producer queue faster than it can handle, then it throws QueueFullException. To get around this in the producer performance tool, we had added a custom sleep option. This ends up reducing the producer throughput and also slows down the system test. After KAFKA-74, we have the option of blocking on the async producer, instead of throwing QueueFullException. This is useful to run stress and performance tests.