Running Jetty as Root under Linux

Hi, 
I have a web application running on Jetty 4.2.21 on a Linux box. My
application needs to use serial devices through java comm-api so I'm
forced to run jetty as root user.
Now, after few hours jetty (actually the entire jvm) freeze completely.
For testing purposes, I'm modifing my app leaving only the communication
layer to see if the problem arises with serial ports.
In the meantime do you know if there is any problem running Jetty with
root privileges?

Thank you in advance

P.S: Special Thanks to Bocio

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