[KAFKA-164] Config should default to a higher-throughput configuration for log.flush.interval

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.7
• Fix Version/s: 0.7
• Component/s: config
• Assignee: Jay Kreps
• Reporter: Jay Kreps
• Due: 20/Oct/11
• Created: 20/Oct/11 15:36
• Updated: 24/Oct/11 17:37
• Resolved: 24/Oct/11 17:37

Description

Currently we default the flush interval to log.flush.interval=1. This is very slow as it immediately flushes each message. I recommend we change this to 20000 and drop the time-based flush to 1 second. This should be a good default trade-off between latency and throughput.