Possibly. I have seen GC times of > 4 minutes on some large processes. Better to set the GC parameters so you don't get long pauses.
On http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ZooKeeper/Troubleshooting it mentions using the "-XX:ParallelGCThreads=8 -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC" options. I recommend adding -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+CMSParallelRemarkEnabled -XX:+DisableExplicitGC You may want to tune the actual parameters of the GC itself. These should not be used in general, but might be helpful for certain kinds of servers: -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=6 -XX:SurvivorRatio=6 -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=60 -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly Finally, you should always add options for lots of GC diagnostics: -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -XX:+PrintTenuringDistribution On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Jordan Zimmerman <jzimmer...@proofpoint.com > wrote: > If I set my session timeout very high (1 minute) this shouldn't happen, > right? >