I'm trying to know the samething. I got tons of that message on my tomcat log and after some time it throws me the following error:
WARNING: Exception executing accept
java.net.SocketException: Too many open files
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketAccept(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.accept(PlainSocketImpl.java:353)
at java.net.ServerSocket.implAccept(ServerSocket.java:448)
at java.net.ServerSocket.accept(ServerSocket.java:419)
at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.accept(ChannelSocket.java:295)
at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.acceptConnections(ChannelSocket.java:638)
at org.apache.jk.common.SocketAcceptor.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:847)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:683)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
And this error is making my application been temporary unvailable.
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