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Notifications can be sent asynchronously. They are committed into persistent
-storage and then asynchronously sent to the topic's configured endpoint. In
-this case, the only latency added to the original operation is the latency
+storage and then asynchronously sent to the topic's configured endpoint.
+The notification will be committed to persistent storage only if the triggering
+operation was successful.
+In this case, the only latency added to the original operation is the latency
added when the notification is committed to persistent storage.
+If the endpoint of the topic to which the notification is sent is not available for a long
+period of time, the persistent storage allocated for this topic will eventually fill up.
+When this happens the triggering operations will fail with ``503 Service Unavailable``,
+which tells the client that it may retry later.
.. note:: If the notification fails with an error, cannot be delivered, or
times out, it is retried until it is successfully acknowledged.