Tomcat is using a high percentage of available CPU

Issue

• Tomcat shows an extremely high percentage of use, regardless of the number of CPU's. Tuning doesn't appear to help, either.

tomcat    1869  452 14.1 9104132 4628432 ?     Ssl  08:18  74:11 /usr/lib/jvm/jre/bin/java -Xms1024m -Xmx4096m -classpath /usr/share/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/share/tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar:/usr/share/java/commons-daemon.jar -Dcatalina.base=/usr/share/tomcat -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat -Djava.endorsed.dirs= -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/cache/tomcat/temp -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/usr/share/tomcat/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start

• High CPU consumption by Java on Red Hat Satellite server, causing extreme slowness.