[rabbitmq-discuss] What is rabbitmq heartbeat?

[mysurf mail]

Hi,
As I have mentioned before - the rabbit client that is acts as a json rpc
server receives all the client request
but after a while it stops respondnig until the process restarts (java
client restart) .
I heard about heartbeat and wanted to know if setting it would help.
(Cant find a documentation in the site about it).
Can someone explain the heartbeat?
Thanks.
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