Strange PING errors within Tomcat

All I have tomcat 5.5.7 installed on SUSE linux 9.0 and when i start it up after some of my web applications have been installed i get errors like these which in turn take the system down with memory errors. And i can't find any information on this. Is this tomcat or my web applications. [

Too many sockets on mod_jk

All I have an apache 1.3.37 and mod_jk 1.2.12 setup . When my apache connects to my Jboss tomcat server i see about 90 open socket connections. Is there a way to track how many sockets get opened in mod_jk, as this is happening for each client that logs onto the application, so if i get about