Hi Support, Here is a summary of the issue: When we open telnet sessions to port 8009(or any other port for that matter), where the number of sessions = value of maxProcessors in server.xml, opening any further telnet sessions throws the following errors in the catalina logs : Ajp13Connector[8009] No processor available, rejecting this connection. Even when we close some of the telnet sessions we continue to encounter the same errors while trying to open new sessions. The netstat shows that these connections are still in CLOSE_WAIT state and they remain that way forever until we restart tomcat. OS version : Windows 2000 Tomcat Version : 4.0.3 Please let us know if there is configurations that we can change or if there is any work around to solve this issue.Also, let us know if you need any further information. Thanks in advance, Divya Arcot Systems, India Office: +91-80-56602724