I did some investigation on this today. I would still need to debug a little more but the impression I had is the Redistributor keeps redistributing to itself until the new consumer on the other node arrives. The problem is, the methos keeps calling itself until the condition is satisfied, and it will eventually run out of StackTrace due to this recursivety. I have done a test using -Xss10M and it never failed. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4220454#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...