title: OpenShift - behaviour of gears
body: <p>I wanted to use OpenShift for a small project at university. I do not need data persistence, I just have a Java EE application running. </p>
  
  <p>I now from Heroku, that idling dynos are destroyed and recovered when needed again. Because the sessions of the user using my service might endure some time (with idle in between) I am curious if OpenShift also destroys the gears in idle and if so, after how much time of being in idle state?</p>
  
  <p>Somebody got some experience or information on this? I couldn't find what I was looking for in the official documentation...</p>
  
  <p>BR
  Florian</p>