Erlang node connection timeout

I have a bunch of erlang nodes running on a single machine, and they are all connected in a network. Sometimes the machine our application is on will be under extremely heavy load for several minutes. Often, after things return 开发者_如何转开发to normal, my erlang nodes think that they were disconnected, and I have to manually call net_adm:ping on each one of them to get them to re-connect to the network.

Any ideas on how I can avoid this situation?

You can increase the value of net_ticktime kernel configuration option so nodes will be pinged more infrequently. See also net_kernel:set_net_ticktime. Note, however, that all communicating nodes should have the same net_ticktime value specified.