On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Otis Gospodnetic <otis_gospodne...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I'd be curious if you could reproduce this in Jetty....
All application threads are blocked... it's going to be the same in Jetty or Tomcat or any other container that's pure Java. There is an OS level listening queue that has a certain depth (configurable in both tomcat and jetty and passed down to the OS when listen() for the socket is called). If too many connections are initiated without being accepted, they will start being rejected. See UNIX man pages for listen() and connect() for more details. For Tomcat, the config param you want is "acceptCount" http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/http.html Increasing this will ensure that connections don't get rejected while a long GC is going on. -Yonik
