Yes, that is what would happen; some anti entropy mechanism would have to
perform the replication after the fact (hinted handoff, read repair, manual
repair etc).
For most things, it's better to rely on the dynamic endpoint snitch and
some sort of dynamic load balancing from the client (see:
https
There are two relevant bugs (that I know of), both resolved in somewhat
recent versions, which make somewhat regular restarts beneficial
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2868 (memory leak in
GCInspector, fixed in 0.7.9/0.8.5)
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2252 (hea