Re:What every software engineer should know about Apache Kafka
by EdwardDiego on Sunday May 17, 2020 @03:39AM
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> adding a replica to the in sync replica list take several hours if partition are 300GB
I'd be curious to hear more about this, because I run several topics with similar partition sizes, and haven't encountered several hours for one replica, and I've routinely shifted 350GB partition replicas as part of routine maintenance.
I have encountered 2 hours to restore a broker that was shut down improperly, but yeah, assuming your replica fetchers aren't throttled to shit, or your brokers aren't overloaded (what's the request handler avg idle? 20% or lower is time to add another broker, 10% is time to add another broker right now), that's really extreme.
As soon as a segment is under-replicated it”s replication factor is restored under less than 2 minutes by selecting new machine as replica.
Kafka try to do it with “kafka cruise control” but adding a replica to the in sync replica list take several hours if partition are 300GB and servers are already busy handling regular live traffic