The reason for suggested node and connection timeouts for account, container and object servers is not documented correctly, and the values themselves are too high. The default values for node and connection timeouts maintained by Swift should be sufficient for almost all gluster/swift installations.
The version that this bug has been reported against, does not get any updates from the Gluster Community anymore. Please verify if this report is still valid against a current (3.4, 3.5 or 3.6) release and update the version, or close this bug. If there has been no update before 9 December 2014, this bug will get automatocally closed.