In our production system I can see that a node desappers from the cluster if its server was heavily-loaded. It's OK, but the node never comes back to the cluster even after its server is working normally, without load. I can easily reproduce the problem in 2 cases:

1) by taking a memory dump on the node: jmap -dump:format=b,file=dump.hprof <pid>
Since we have 8-16 GB of RAM, this operation takes much time and blocks JVM - so other members exclude this node from View.

2) GC (garbage collection) - if JVM is doing GC constantly (and almost can not work)

In both situations the stuck node never reappears in the cluster (even after 1 h). Below are more details.

We have 12 nodes in our cluster, we problematic node is "gate5".

View on gate5: [gate11.mydomain|869] [gate11.mydomain, gate2.mydomain, gate6.mydomain, gate7.mydomain, gate12.mydomain, gate4.mydomain, gate3.mydomain, gate10.mydomain, gate8.mydomain, gate9.mydomain, gate14.mydomain, gate5.mydomain]

View on gate11 (coordinator): [gate11.mydomain|870] [gate11.mydomain, gate2.mydomain, gate6.mydomain, gate7.mydomain, gate12.mydomain, gate4.mydomain, gate3.mydomain, gate10.mydomain, gate8.mydomain, gate9.mydomain, gate14.mydomain]

The coordinator (gate11) is sending GET_MBRS_REQ periodically - I see them in gate5. But I do NOT see response to this request!
All jgroups threads are alive, not dead (I took stack traces).
Another strange thing is that the problematic gate5 sends messages to other nodes and even receives messages from SOME of them! How is it possible - I double-checked that ALL other nodes have view_id=870 (without gate5)?

The only assumption I have is race-conditions which occurs (as always) under high load.
In normal situations such as temporary network failure everything works perfectly - gate5 joins the cluster.