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E. EldorKafka Troubleshooting in Production https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9490-1_6

6. RAM Allocation in Kafka Clusters: Performance, Stability, and Optimization Strategies

Elad Eldor¹

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Tel Aviv, Israel

Adding RAM to a Kafka Cluster

The Strategic Role of RAM Over CPU and Disks

Cloud vs. On-Prem RAM Expansion: Considerations and Constraints

Adding RAM to the Cloud

Adding RAM to On-Prem Kafka Clusters

Enhancing Kafka’s Performance: The Benefits of Increasing Broker RAM

Performance Boost

Disk I/O Reduction

Throughput Enhancement

Latency Reduction

Understanding the Linux Page Cache

Page Cache in Kafka: Accelerating Writes and Reads

Balancing Performance and Reliability: ...

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