As of 2017-05-20, we have the following configuration in production:

ZooKeeper version is 3.5.1.

zoo.cfg:

```
# http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/docs/current/zookeeperAdmin.html

# The number of milliseconds of each tick
tickTime=2000
# The number of ticks that the initial
# synchronization phase can take
initLimit=30000
# The number of ticks that can pass between
# sending a request and getting an acknowledgement
syncLimit=10

maxClientCnxns=2000

maxSessionTimeout=60000000
# the directory where the snapshot is stored.
dataDir=/opt/zookeeper/{{ cluster['name'] }}/data
# Place the dataLogDir to a separate physical disc for better performance
dataLogDir=/opt/zookeeper/{{ cluster['name'] }}/logs

autopurge.snapRetainCount=10
autopurge.purgeInterval=1


# To avoid seeks ZooKeeper allocates space in the transaction log file in
# blocks of preAllocSize kilobytes. The default block size is 64M. One reason
# for changing the size of the blocks is to reduce the block size if snapshots
# are taken more often. (Also, see snapCount).
preAllocSize=131072

# Clients can submit requests faster than ZooKeeper can process them,
# especially if there are a lot of clients. To prevent ZooKeeper from running
# out of memory due to queued requests, ZooKeeper will throttle clients so that
# there is no more than globalOutstandingLimit outstanding requests in the
# system. The default limit is 1,000.ZooKeeper logs transactions to a
# transaction log. After snapCount transactions are written to a log file a
# snapshot is started and a new transaction log file is started. The default
# snapCount is 10,000.
snapCount=3000000

# If this option is defined, requests will be will logged to a trace file named
# traceFile.year.month.day.
#traceFile=

# Leader accepts client connections. Default value is "yes". The leader machine
# coordinates updates. For higher update throughput at thes slight expense of
# read throughput the leader can be configured to not accept clients and focus
# on coordination.
leaderServes=yes

standaloneEnabled=false
dynamicConfigFile=/etc/zookeeper-{{ cluster['name'] }}/conf/zoo.cfg.dynamic
```

Java version:

```
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_25-b17)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.25-b02, mixed mode)
```

Java parameters:

```
NAME=zookeeper-{{ cluster['name'] }}
ZOOCFGDIR=/etc/$NAME/conf

# TODO this is really ugly
# How to find out, which jars are needed?
# seems, that log4j requires the log4j.properties file to be in the classpath
CLASSPATH="$ZOOCFGDIR:/usr/build/classes:/usr/build/lib/*.jar:/usr/share/zookeeper/zookeeper-3.5.1-metrika.jar:/usr/share/zookeeper/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.5.jar:/usr/share/zookeeper/slf4j-api-1.7.5.jar:/usr/share/zookeeper/servlet-api-2.5-20081211.jar:/usr/share/zookeeper/netty-3.7.0.Final.jar:/usr/share/zookeeper/log4j-1.2.16.jar:/usr/share/zookeeper/jline-2.11.jar:/usr/share/zookeeper/jetty-util-6.1.26.jar:/usr/share/zookeeper/jetty-6.1.26.jar:/usr/share/zookeeper/javacc.jar:/usr/share/zookeeper/jackson-mapper-asl-1.9.11.jar:/usr/share/zookeeper/jackson-core-asl-1.9.11.jar:/usr/share/zookeeper/commons-cli-1.2.jar:/usr/src/java/lib/*.jar:/usr/etc/zookeeper"

ZOOCFG="$ZOOCFGDIR/zoo.cfg"
ZOO_LOG_DIR=/var/log/$NAME
USER=zookeeper
GROUP=zookeeper
PIDDIR=/var/run/$NAME
PIDFILE=$PIDDIR/$NAME.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME
JAVA=/usr/bin/java
ZOOMAIN="org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeerMain"
ZOO_LOG4J_PROP="INFO,ROLLINGFILE"
JMXLOCALONLY=false
JAVA_OPTS="-Xms{{ cluster.get('xms','128M') }} \
    -Xmx{{ cluster.get('xmx','1G') }} \
    -Xloggc:/var/log/$NAME/zookeeper-gc.log \
    -XX:+UseGCLogFileRotation \
    -XX:NumberOfGCLogFiles=16 \
    -XX:GCLogFileSize=16M \
    -verbose:gc \
    -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps \
    -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps \
    -XX:+PrintGCDetails
    -XX:+PrintTenuringDistribution \
    -XX:+PrintGCApplicationStoppedTime \
    -XX:+PrintGCApplicationConcurrentTime \
    -XX:+PrintSafepointStatistics \
    -XX:+UseParNewGC \
    -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC \
-XX:+CMSParallelRemarkEnabled"
```

Salt init:

```
description "zookeeper-{{ cluster['name'] }} centralized coordination service"

start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [!2345]

respawn

limit nofile 8192 8192

pre-start script
    [ -r "/etc/zookeeper-{{ cluster['name'] }}/conf/environment" ] || exit 0
    . /etc/zookeeper-{{ cluster['name'] }}/conf/environment
    [ -d $ZOO_LOG_DIR ] || mkdir -p $ZOO_LOG_DIR
    chown $USER:$GROUP $ZOO_LOG_DIR
end script

script
    . /etc/zookeeper-{{ cluster['name'] }}/conf/environment
    [ -r /etc/default/zookeeper ] && . /etc/default/zookeeper
    if [ -z "$JMXDISABLE" ]; then
        JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.local.only=$JMXLOCALONLY"
    fi
    exec start-stop-daemon --start -c $USER --exec $JAVA --name zookeeper-{{ cluster['name'] }} \
        -- -cp $CLASSPATH $JAVA_OPTS -Dzookeeper.log.dir=${ZOO_LOG_DIR} \
        -Dzookeeper.root.logger=${ZOO_LOG4J_PROP} $ZOOMAIN $ZOOCFG
end script
```