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How small where the box? normally kafka dosnt need much (4GB/8GB) and just uses the rest for page cache which can be sacrificed for performance.

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It had 512MB of RAM, which I realise is a bit rediculous to run anything like this. I don't have a whole lot of budget for R&D so I try to keep things cheaper where possible.

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