Rohit Macherla [http://community.jboss.org/people/rohit.macherla] replied to the discussion "JBoss Tomcat high number of threads and slower application response" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/535989#535989 -------------------------------------------------------------- Just found out that socket writes may also be blocked when the TCP Buffer is full (i.e., when the other end point isn't reading the data) I am not sure if I am following the right path.. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/535989#535989] Start a new discussion in Performance Tuning at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]