High amounts of I/O dispatcher threads accumulated in java application

Issue

• We see a large amount of accumulating I/O dispatcher threads like below until our JVM crashes:

"I/O dispatcher 9207"
  at sun.nio.ch.EPollArrayWrapper.epollWait(JIJI)I (Native Method)
  at sun.nio.ch.EPollArrayWrapper.poll(J)I (EPollArrayWrapper.java:269)
  at sun.nio.ch.EPollSelectorImpl.doSelect(J)I (EPollSelectorImpl.java:93)
  at sun.nio.ch.SelectorImpl.lockAndDoSelect(J)I (SelectorImpl.java:86)
  at sun.nio.ch.SelectorImpl.select(J)I (SelectorImpl.java:97)
  at org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.AbstractIOReactor.execute()V (AbstractIOReactor.java:257)
  at org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.BaseIOReactor.execute(Lorg/apache/http/nio/reactor/IOEventDispatch;)V (BaseIOReactor.java:106)
  at org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.AbstractMultiworkerIOReactor$Worker.run()V (AbstractMultiworkerIOReactor.java:590)
  at java.lang.Thread.run()V (Thread.java:748)