This situation was caused because the customer had configured his Agents to connect the MOM on port 8081.
In the IntroscopeAgent.profile
agentManager.url.1=<MOM>:8081.
The Jetty webservice is configured to have 100 concurrent connection by default and this customer had many agent going to this URL.
This is a supported method to have an agent communicate with the mom the first recommendation is
agentManager.url.1=<MOM>:5001
From more information please check out "
Connect to the Enterprise Manager Using a Direct Socket Connection"