Middleware Parameters
Kafka
- Service parameters
It is not recommended to set replication.factor to a high value when compression.type is gzip, because this may increase Kafka CPU and I/O overhead and degrade overall performance.
Table 1 Kafka service parameters Recommended Parameter
Tuning Analysis
Parameter Name
Parameter Description
Value Range
Importance Ratio (%)
Optimal Value (vs. Baseline)
Worst Value (vs. Baseline)
compression.type
Compression algorithm of message batches
{uncompressed, zstd, lz4,snappy, gzip, producer}
64.8%
producer
(+0.0%)
gzip
(-77.2%)
replication.factor
Number of copies of each partition stored in the cluster
[1, 100]
6.7%
3
60
- System parameters
Table 2 Kafka system parameters Recommended Parameter
Tuning Analysis
Parameter Name
Value Range
Importance Ratio (%)
Default Value
Optimal Value (vs. Baseline)
Worst Value (vs. Baseline)
transparent_hugepage_mode
{madvise, never, always}
42.2%
never
always (+2.4%)
never