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What is the appropriate GC for Kafka?

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G1 vs CMS?

Article from @Vedant Jain seems to indicate G1 in Java/JVM section:

https://community.hortonworks.com/articles/49789/kafka-best-practices.html (Java/JVM tuning section)

LinkedIn Engineering concludes that CMS: https://engineering.linkedin.com/garbage-collection/garbage-collection-optimization-high-throughput-...

Opinions and reasons? What is your field experience?

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LinkedIn article is an old article. Kafka documentaion recommends G1 collector.

http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#java

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LinkedIn article is an old article. Kafka documentaion recommends G1 collector.

http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#java