Some loosely coupled steps to reproduce this.. Tested with classpath-0.97-gentoo.tar.gz (What patches are on top of base classpath I don't know) jetty-6.1.7 kaffe-1.1.9 Amd64 arch running on hardened gentoo Step 1 mvn archetype:create -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.wicket -DarchetypeArtifactId=wicket-archetype-quickstart -DarchetypeVersion=1.3.2 -DgroupId=test.kaffe.org -DartifactId=crash Step 2 mvn jetty:run Step 3 I just ran siege against for about 15 seconds. A curl script may trigger the same.. http://www.joedog.org/JoeDog/Siege