Tomcat - Running as non root and thread limiting.

[Paul Downs]

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Hi,
  Anther two questions (should be the last 2 and then maybe I can help 
people).  Is there any way in configuration to run tomcat as a non root 
user, or is the only way to su to the user and then run tomcat?  We have a 
process killer that won't kill tasks with a main "root" thread, i.e. how 
apache runs.
  Secondly I have the following in server.xml

        <Connector className="org.apache.tomcat.service.PoolTcpConnector">
            <Parameter
                name="handler"
 
value="org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp13ConnectionHandler"/>
            <Parameter
                name="port"
                value="8009"/>
            <Parameter
                name="max_threads"
                value="100"/>
            <Parameter
                name="max_spare_threads"
                value="20"/>
            <Parameter
                name="min_spare_threads"
                value="10"/>
        </Connector>

   Which seems to be ok, and much more limited entries for apj12.  However 
when I start tomcat there are still well over 200 threads running and 
normally nigh on 300!  Help!

Paul