I am asking the community here as i am confused with contradicting info i am finding about this on web. I have read that “By default, Tomcat in Spring Boot has a thread pool consisting of a maximum of 200 threads” . At the same time i have also read that “By default, the number of requests that Spring Boot can handle simultaneously = maximum connections (8192) + maximum waiting number (100), resulting in 8292” . So is it like using 200 threads spring boot can handle 8192 connections simultaneously at a time ? or one of the information above is wrong . We are using Spring boot 3.x.x in our apps.

In our app logs I can see that, for example “09:58:52.763 [http-nio-8085-exec-488]” which makes me to believe its using 488th thread , but if there are only 200 threads how can it go to 488. So confused :(. I humbly request knowledgeable folks to give more clarity or give me a document reference i can read abt.