Your dump just shows a connection holdings references to channels which is completely normal. What we need to know is what has the reference to the remoting connection. Also "somewhere on management has a reference to resource manager", well yes, the ManagementService has a reference to messaging server control which has a reference to resource manager, that's normal. But it doesn't help, what we need to know is what has the reference to the ManagementService and why it's not being cleared. "Remoting has a reference to management". Really? I can't find any such reference in the code. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4236910#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...