Re: Consume more than produce

[Steve Morin <st...@stevemorin.com>]

You have to remember statsd uses udp and possibly lossy which might account
for the errors.
-Steve


On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Guy Doulberg <Gu...@perion.com>
wrote:

> Hey,
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> After a year or so I have Kafka as my streaming layer in my production, I
> decided it is time to audit, and to test how many events do I lose, if I
> lose events at all.
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> I discovered something interesting which I can't explain.
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> The producer produces less events that the consumer group consumes.
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> It is not much more, it is about 0.1% more events
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> I use the Consumer API (not the simple consumer API)
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> I was thinking I might had rebalancing going on in my system, but it
> doesn't look like that.
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> Did anyone see such a behaviour
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> In order to audit, I calculated for each event the minute it arrived, and
> assigned this value to the event, I used statsd do to count all events from
> all my producer cluster, and all consumer group cluster.
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> I must say that it is not a happening for every minute,
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> Thanks, Guy
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