HttpServer example blocking after 16384 requests

[Sebastian Latza]

Hi everybody,

I am toying around with the netty examples and ran into an issue with  
the HttpServer. After 16384 requests (16 KB) from Apache Bench my  
server stops accepting new requests for a while. After 30 sec. or so  
it "recovers", taking another 16384. I'm guessing  that the threads  
are not releasing the sockets properly for some reason, but I'm not  
sure how to enforce this. Another reason could be os-related, but  
again I am not sure which parameter to tune (max . files are 256) I'm  
running Mac OS, 2GB Ram, Java 1.5.0_19, Netty 3.10.CR1

Any hints/pointers?

Regards
Sebastian