This issue occurs when the following conditions are met:

• Commands from the provisioning system time out or fail.
• The process.log file obtained by runninglsof -i:8080 >> process.logon the board where the active provisioning gateway (PGW) module resides, indicates that the number of established SOAP connections exceeds 100.
• A lot of debug log information about the PGW process is displayed to indicate that the maximum number of links is reached. The key log information is Maximum allowed links in the thread are already allocated. No more links are available in this worker thread!.