What does cassandra do when it is at its data capacity (disk drives and memtable is full) and writes continue to pour in? My intuition says that cassandra won't be able to handle the new writes (they will either get silently dropped or cassandra will hit an OOM -- does anyone know which one?). The sstables on disk won't magically disappear so cassandra won't be able to service the write requests.
Has anyone run into this situation before and does anyone know for sure what happens? I wanted to write in to confirm whether my intuition was correct or not. Faraaz
