Producer

Setup
bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper esv4-hcl197.grid.linkedin.com:2181 --create --topic test-rep-one --partitions 6 --replication-factor 1
bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper esv4-hcl197.grid.linkedin.com:2181 --create --topic test --partitions 6 --replication-factor 3

Single thread, no replication

bin/kafka-run-class.sh org.apache.kafka.clients.tools.ProducerPerformance test7 50000000 100 -1 acks=1 bootstrap.servers=esv4-hcl198.grid.linkedin.com:9092 buffer.memory=67108864 batch.size=8196

Single-thread, async 3x replication

bin/kafktopics.sh --zookeeper esv4-hcl197.grid.linkedin.com:2181 --create --topic test --partitions 6 --replication-factor 3
bin/kafka-run-class.sh org.apache.kafka.clients.tools.ProducerPerformance test6 50000000 100 -1 acks=1 bootstrap.servers=esv4-hcl198.grid.linkedin.com:9092 buffer.memory=67108864 batch.size=8196

Single-thread, sync 3x replication

bin/kafka-run-class.sh org.apache.kafka.clients.tools.ProducerPerformance test 50000000 100 -1 acks=-1 bootstrap.servers=esv4-hcl198.grid.linkedin.com:9092 buffer.memory=67108864 batch.size=64000

Three Producers, 3x async replication
bin/kafka-run-class.sh org.apache.kafka.clients.tools.ProducerPerformance test 50000000 100 -1 acks=1 bootstrap.servers=esv4-hcl198.grid.linkedin.com:9092 buffer.memory=67108864 batch.size=8196

Throughput Versus Stored Data

bin/kafka-run-class.sh org.apache.kafka.clients.tools.ProducerPerformance test 50000000000 100 -1 acks=1 bootstrap.servers=esv4-hcl198.grid.linkedin.com:9092 buffer.memory=67108864 batch.size=8196

Effect of message size

for i in 10 100 1000 10000 100000;
do
echo ""
echo $i
bin/kafka-run-class.sh org.apache.kafka.clients.tools.ProducerPerformance test $((1000*1024*1024/$i)) $i -1 acks=1 bootstrap.servers=esv4-hcl198.grid.linkedin.com:9092 buffer.memory=67108864 batch.size=128000
done;

Consumer
Consumer throughput

bin/kafka-consumer-perf-test.sh --zookeeper esv4-hcl197.grid.linkedin.com:2181 --messages 50000000 --topic test --threads 1

3 Consumers

On three servers, run:
bin/kafka-consumer-perf-test.sh --zookeeper esv4-hcl197.grid.linkedin.com:2181 --messages 50000000 --topic test --threads 1

End-to-end Latency

bin/kafka-run-class.sh kafka.tools.TestEndToEndLatency esv4-hcl198.grid.linkedin.com:9092 esv4-hcl197.grid.linkedin.com:2181 test 5000

Producer and consumer

bin/kafka-run-class.sh org.apache.kafka.clients.tools.ProducerPerformance test 50000000 100 -1 acks=1 bootstrap.servers=esv4-hcl198.grid.linkedin.com:9092 buffer.memory=67108864 batch.size=8196

bin/kafka-consumer-perf-test.sh --zookeeper esv4-hcl197.grid.linkedin.com:2181 --messages 50000000 --topic test --threads 1