Re: [jetty-users] stop running thread when client disconnects

["Jeff Palmer" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>in such a case it is good to limit the servlet load with some kind of
>thread pool for processing such requests, which can at least throttle
>the incoming requests. Perhaps even in conjuction with continuations to not
>waste thread while processing, though this might not be very
>significant with requests beeing so intensive that 10 simultaneous requests
>would already tie up a few maching cpus completely.

For the throttling part look at  quality of service filter. http://wiki.eclipse.org/Jetty/Reference/QoSFilter