You may want to try turning off keepalives in your tomcat. (I assume
you are only using tomcat, and not proxying through mod_jk and
apache/ IIS).
In your connector settings have a look at 'maxKeepAliveRequests=1'
If you really have that many threads, you will probably be best of
using
Hmm,
I would suggest you stop having continuos connections. 30 seconds is a
lot of time, maybe you should re-establish connections on request. I
know re-establishing costs 3 additional tcp packets, but it negligible
since you have small packets sent seldomly.
I assume your chat is an applet,
I have an application that links users so they can chat. My client
operates within a browser. To be firewall friendly and avoid client
server sockets listening for incoming requests, I implemented the client
so that it makes http requests and sits and waits (maybe for minutes on
end) until it
