I forgot to mention a couple of things. 1. Blocking polling is on the remoting_2_x branch. The plan is to do a release in time for the next AS releases (community and EAP). 2. You can set the ConnectionValidator ping timeout value with | <attribute name="validatorPingTimeout" isParam="true">4000</attribute> | Also, for comparison purposes, I ran the socket transport version of the stress tests: | windows linux | ---------- --------- | http 90 min 22 min | socket 73 min 15 min | -Ron View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4057239#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...