Update: The problem happens deterministically on a "broken pipe" situation, e.g. when I pull the network cable kill the client during a client request. It effectively "freezes" the web portion of the server for anywhere between 15sec and 10minutes, no servlet, webservice, or even simple http request is handled.
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