[jira] [Created] (KAFKA-1480) support log.roll.minutes

["Steven Zhen Wu (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Steven Zhen Wu created KAFKA-1480:
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             Summary: support log.roll.minutes
                 Key: KAFKA-1480
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1480
             Project: Kafka
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: config
            Reporter: Steven Zhen Wu


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 <st...@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"?



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