[jira] [Commented] (KAFKA-918) Change log.retention.hours to be log.retention.mins

["Jay Kreps (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jay Kreps commented on KAFKA-918:
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This make sense, should be a pretty easy fix. We would definitely take a patch against trunk if could still support the older property as a fallback for compatibility.
                
> Change log.retention.hours to be log.retention.mins
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: KAFKA-918
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-918
>             Project: Kafka
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: config
>    Affects Versions: 0.7.2
>            Reporter: Jason Weiss
>              Labels: features
>
> We stood up a cluster that is processing over 350,000 events per second, with each event a fixed payload size of 2K. The storage required to process that much data over an hour is beyond what we wanted to pay for at AWS. Additionally, we don't have a requirement to keep the files around for an extended period after processing.
> It would be tremendously valuable for us to be able to define the log.retention in minutes, not hours. For example, we would prefer to only keep 30 minutes of logs around.

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