title: Why is my node count so high and climbing in Zookeeper?
body: <p>When I run telnet <code>127.0.0.1 2181</code> and use the four letter command stat. Everything that gets printed out makes sense to me except for my Node count, which is at 542 and climbing every time I run my program. </p>
  
  <p>Does this mean that I have persistent nodes lying around that I need to clean up?</p>
  
  <p>I am using the O'Reilly Zookeeper book and I use the "AdminClient" class and I am printing out all the possible nodes and everything is deleted before my program closes using <code>zk.delete()</code>.</p>
  
  <p>I am new to zookeeper so any ideas about what is going on or best practices is appreciated.</p>
  
  <p><strong><em>UPDATE</em></strong>
  Does nobody have a method of inspecting the nodes in a zookeeper instance? There has to be a way to see what nodes exist without knowing the path beforehand.</p>