Aren't the threads above the maxSpareThreads supposed to be terminated after a minute or so? I set the maxSpareThreads of the 84443 connector to 35 but the current threads are always larger than 35 (~ 49) with most of these threads in a state of R without a client connected.

Is there any other setting that I should examine?  I was expecting that the threads that are beyond the maxSpareThreads would terminate after a minute or so.