topic.log.retention.hours doesn't work

["Jin, Warren" <we...@ebay.com>]

HI All,

My Kafka version is: kafka_2.9.2-0.8.1.1

I used topic.log.retention.hours to define the topic specific retention hours, but it haven't trigger the deletion of outdated logs.
Below are my settings:
log.retention.hours=12
topic.log.retention.hours=ssnzEvent:1

the general retention hours is 12 hours, for ssnzEvent it's 1 hour.  For ssnzEvent topic, it haven't trigger the deletion even for 10 hours file.
Do you know the reason, what's the correct usage for topic.log.retention.hours?

Thanks,
Warren

Re: topic.log.retention.hours doesn't work

[Neha Narkhede <ne...@gmail.com>]

>From 0.8.1 onwards, per topic config settings cannot be changed through the
properties file and you need to use the kafka-topics tool to do that.
Please see the documentation
here<http://kafka.apache.org/081/documentation.html#basic_ops_modify_topic>
.

Thanks,
Neha


On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:17 AM, Jin, Warren <we...@ebay.com> wrote:

> HI All,
>
> My Kafka version is: kafka_2.9.2-0.8.1.1
>
> I used topic.log.retention.hours to define the topic specific retention
> hours, but it haven't trigger the deletion of outdated logs.
> Below are my settings:
> log.retention.hours=12
> topic.log.retention.hours=ssnzEvent:1
>
> the general retention hours is 12 hours, for ssnzEvent it's 1 hour.  For
> ssnzEvent topic, it haven't trigger the deletion even for 10 hours file.
> Do you know the reason, what's the correct usage for
> topic.log.retention.hours?
>
> Thanks,
> Warren
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>