I wrote : | As long as the timeout is that short, then turning on idle thread reaping may not be necessary after all. | Nah, that doesn't make sense. It's true that the sockets would get closed, but the ServerThread would just return to the pool. And it's true that the ServerThread could be reused, but the number of threads would be monotonically non-decreasing, growing as the momentary demand exceeds the number of available threads. I.e., I'm back in favor of idle thread reaping. Flippity-flop. -Ron View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4222836#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...