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• Use bounded memory pool to control memory usage (KIP-72):

  While this might be the best way to handle that on the server side it's unclear if this would suit the client well. First, it's pretty complicated and while on the server that's acceptable for robustness, on the client side, simplicity and ease of configuration might be more important. Also this works well on the server side because the server doesn't know what sort of requests it will receive, the client usually Usually the client has a rough idea of about how many brokers partitions it will be connected too hence of many fetches it will do in parallel. subscribed to so it's easier to size this new value.