Jetty 6.1.14 cometd performance

Hi,

We've been doing performance/stress testing on Jetty's cometd. We observed that when we test the deliver feature of cometd - for eg - have 5000 HTTP bayeux clients connecting/subscribing to the Jetty cometd server and the server delivering to these clients at 3000notification/second. (Here, for performance testing- we deliver the same message to all the clients on same channel) - the jvm on server side goes out of java heap space after running for 20-24 hours.

The parameters we had:
jetty.xml:
      <New class="org.mortbay.thread.QueuedThreadPool">
        <Set name="minThreads">10</Set>
        <Set name="maxThreads">500</Set>
        <Set name="lowThreads">20</Set>
        <Set name="SpawnOrShrinkAt">2</Set>
      </New>
 <Set name="maxIdleTime">2000000000</Set>
            <Set name="Acceptors">2</Set>
            <Set name="statsOn">false</Set>
            <Set name="confidentialPort">8443</Set>
            <Set name="lowResourcesConnections">50000000000</Set>
            <Set name="lowResourcesMaxIdleTime">50000000000</Set>

We increased the maxIdleTime, lowResourcesConnections and lowResourcesMaxIdleTime to support that many connections.
We wanted to know if this would be a right approach.


web.xml:
 <init-param>
                        <param-name>timeout</param-name>
                        <param-value>12000000</param-value>
                </init-param>
                <init-param>
                        <param-name>interval</param-name>
                        <param-value>0</param-value>
                </init-param>
                <init-param>
                        <param-name>maxInterval</param-name>
                        <param-value>100000000</param-value>
                </init-param>
We faced the problem of clients disconnecting when we had default/lower numbers for timeout and maxInterval. So we played around with it little bit and increasing those params resolved the issue.

After this analysis - we are not able to figure out why the memory goes out of bound or is it something related to huge numbers for the params in jetty.xml and web.xml?

Thanks