Discussion - Should we move auto-failover out of erlang?

In the field, we are seeing many time that when a node is 'slow' due to the OS, the node is auto-failed over. During this 'slow' time the memcached process is handling gets/sets from the clients without any issues.

Often the issue comes down to erlang not being able to communicate to each other for some reason that is not impacting memcached and is sometimes blamed on swap, THP, erlang's internal balancing among threads, etc.

Should we look at moving the auto-failover logic out of erlang to help prevent some of these 'false' failovers?