Hi Ram- Outstanding requests can lead to high memory usage (possibly bringing down members of the quorum) and slower responses to requests. I would take a look at the section from the "ZooKeeper: Distributed Process Coordination" book for a good description of what happens when the globalOutstandingLimit is reached: https://books.google.com/books?id=OWQdAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT255&lpg=PT255&dq=%22globalOutstandingLimit%22+zookeeper&source=bl&ots=14zMtuu14N&sig=nbIIbjryge-p9UMQAWcu06mnUEQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjsxb6grsbXAhVjyFQKHdztCOwQ6AEISDAD#v=onepage&q=%22globalOutstandingLimit%22%20zookeeper&f=false I don't think there is any general answer to how to bring the count down, as the answer is totally related to your usage of ZooKeeper. Thanks, Abe On Fri, Nov 17, 2017, at 09:39, rammohan ganapavarapu wrote: > Hi, > > In zookeeper what will happened if outstanding requests are high? we have > default global limit to 1000, what will happened if the outstanding > requests go beyond global limit with is 1000? if we see huge outstanding > requests are there any actions to bring the count down? > > Thanks, > Ram