Hello, I am using Tomcat 6.0.18 in a production server, serving thousands of users and hundreds of transactions per second. I am using the NIO connector. I've noticed a serious memory utilization problem which were traced to the fact that a single processor is dedicated to a connection and is not recycled in-between requests. I've noticed ~7000 registered processors and that, as a result, the server was busy doing GC and nothing else. I've performed modification to the code to allow a processor to be recycled between requests (I believe this was the behavior in older Tomcat versions) which indeed solved the memory problem. I'd like to know more regarding the implications of such a modification and to understand more why is the processor is dedicated to a connection and not to a request.
Thanks
