"java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe" was shown in JBoss or Tomcat log?

Issue

• The following exception was shown in JBoss server.log or Tomcat catalina.out. What causes this?

  WARN  [MsgContext] Error sending end packet
  java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
         at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite0(Native Method)
         at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite(SocketOutputStream.java:92)
         at java.net.SocketOutputStream.write(SocketOutputStream.java:136)
         at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.send(ChannelSocket.java:531)
         at org.apache.jk.common.JkInputStream.endMessage(JkInputStream.java:112)
         at org.apache.jk.core.MsgContext.action(MsgContext.java:293)
         at org.apache.coyote.Response.action(Response.java:182)
         at org.apache.coyote.Response.finish(Response.java:304)
         at org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:204)
         at org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:282)
         at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:767)
         at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:697)
         at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket$SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:889)
         at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
  WARN  [ChannelSocket] processCallbacks status 2
  

• JBoss EAP hung with above error in logs.