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. > It hits an OOM. =Rob
