Http tests failed with OutOfMemoryError on Linux RH7.1(kernel version 2.4.1) when tried to down load URL content. Test failed with merlin build 68. Same test passed on Solaris windows2kprof / 98 and Linux RH6.2 (kernel 2.2.14) . What this test does is continuously opens set of URLs and downloads the content.
Its giving the following exception.


Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread
        at java.lang.Thread.start(Native Method)
        at sun.net.www.http.KeepAliveCache$1.run(KeepAliveCache.java:85)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at sun.net.www.http.KeepAliveCache.put(KeepAliveCache.java:78)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.finished(HttpClient.java:332)
        at sun.net.www.http.KeepAliveStream.close(KeepAliveStream.java:70)
        at sun.net.www.MeteredStream.justRead(MeteredStream.java:47)
        at sun.net.www.MeteredStream.read(MeteredStream.java:69)
        at java.io.FilterInputStream.read(FilterInputStream.java:93)
        at JHttpGetURL.doTestURL(JHttpGetURL.java:159)
        at JHttpGetURL.main(JHttpGetURL.java:87)


How to reproduce it:
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1. Take tests from
/net/sqesvr/export/vsn/NET/merlin_jdk_net/TestSuite

2. set JAVA_HOME and STABLE_JAVA_HOME to current jdk.

3. do a make with make all

4. Got to /tests/http and execute http client and server as below.

./run_http_server
./run_http_client

5. View for the exception on client side. JHttpGetURL.java test fails.



OtherInformation:
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Same test passed on all other platforms.