I am also facing the same issue. Btw, do you know how to find these configuration values and more importantly the number of 'available' worker threads within a servlet?
Thanks, Madhav On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:12 AM, Rohan Sahgal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I tried increasing the number of tomcat threads. > > However, I cannot get tomcat to destroy the threads once they get created > even though tomcat is idle. > > I have modified my connector as follows :- > <Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" > connectionTimeout="20000" > maxThreads="2000" minSpareThreads="20" maxSpareThreads="100" > redirectPort="8443" /> > > However I have observed that once 2000 threads are created (I am monitoring > with jconsole), the number never comes down. > The minSpareThreads and maxSpareThreads are ignored. > > I could not find their mention in the tomcat docs either, but this was > something I found on a blog post for Tomcat 5.x. > > Is there a way to make tomcat reduce the number of threads? > > Appreciate all the help. > > Thanks, > Rohan > -- -Madhav