Has anyone else encountered the fact that if a machine is under heavy load
(high request volume) and you restart Tomcat, that the application hangs
without successfully initializing Tapestry? The end result is that the
machine neither refuses requests nor ever answers them. The only solution is
to block request volume at the firewall, start Tomcat up and wait for it to
finish startup, make a single request and wait for it to respond and then
remove the block from the firewall.

Is this a known issue?