I'm trying to use tomcat through an Alteon load-balancer. However, I'm seeing a issue where connections remain in Established between the load-balancer and Tomcat, even though the client request has terminated between Apache and the load-balancer. The result is a bunch of unused established connections and defunct processes on the Tomcat server. The strange thing is that the Alteon doesn't show any active connections to the Tomcat server, but a netstat on the tomcat server shows them as there. I have the load-balancer set to timeout any unused tcp connections after 2 mins. But these connections stay around for hours. Anyone else have this problems or know of any issues which may cause this?
