- Config file with SSL settings for producers and consumers (ssl-perf-test.properties in these examples).
- A topic to produce and consume from (ssl-perf-test in these examples).
This examples produces 3 million messages of 1 KiB each.
The -1 value for --throughput means that messages are produced as quickly as possible, with no throttling limit.
Kafka producer related configuration properties like acks and bootstrap.servers are mentioned as part of --producer-props argument.
The SSL config file it’s being referred as value for the --producer-config argument:
`$ bin/kafka-producer-perf-test.sh