I dont know what exactly will happen. These are the things which might happen 1) Commit log on disk gets recycled so I am assuming it might keep working. 2) SStable wont be able to create new files so it will see an IO exception.
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Faraaz Sareshwala <fsareshw...@quantcast.com > wrote: > 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 >
