ScannerIterator thread use

[Keith Massey]

We're querying accumulo through a web application. After it had been hit 
with one of our test scripts for a few minutes with the debugger 
attached I noticed that there were hundreds and hundreds of threads 
being garbage collected. Eventually it crashes my IDE and the server 
becomes unresponsive. The server recovers eventually. After looking 
through the code a little bit, it appears that these threads are coming 
from 
org.apache.accumulo.core.client.impl.ScannerIterator.initiateReadAhead(). We 
actually get many threads per iterator. Is there any reason that it 
can't use a thread pool instead of creating a new thread for every call 
to that method?
Thanks.
Keith