anonymous wrote : | When you said maxInstances , are you talking about that tomcat configuration (server.xml) maxThreads which the default is 250? No, maxInstances and maxThreads are 2 different things. From what i read in some mailing lists, the maxInstances is not (easily) configurable i guess. But that still leaves the question, how did it end up creating 854 instances. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4220485#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...