I'll throw in a vote for looking into this one. I see things slow down in my steady state load test. I've been trying to hunt my own similar problem for weeks...SJAS9.1u2 on sparc/T1000. 5G heap. -d64. Periodic thread dumps show a fairly constant number of threads. But symptom is CPU creeps up. I'm going to look at memory depletion next...
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