Any Java Guru can help me ? Tomcat + Background Threads

Thank You for looking in the matter.....................

setup :

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Solaris 8

Tomcat 4.0.2

JSP 1.2

JDK 1.3.1

Database Oracle 8

JDBC Drive type 4 for oracle

Problem :

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The Tomcat is running continuously for 3 weeks with out any restart. It is configured to handle 200 processes MAXIMUM. Now the problem is that tomcat has reached to 200 level of processes at the end of 3 weeks. It gve following error in catalina_log file.

2002-04-25 08:58:36 HttpConnector[80] No processor available, rejecting this connection

Obvious reason for the error is that Tomcat is running out of processes/Threads.

Solution Looking for :

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How to make Tomcat kill those processes when they are already satisfied/done without restarting Tomcat.

[853 byte] By [maxJavaa] at [2007-9-19]