[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-6582?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.s... ] Scott Marlow commented on AS7-6582: ----------------------------------- Hi Brian, great to see you here, since we both love chasing down these types of leaks. ;) I saw the picture, which looks to show some storage associated with what is probably the EntityManagerFactory that the persistence unit service creates. And the EntityManagerFactory would still reference the SerializableValidatorFactory (I'm not surprised by that). I'm also not against the proposed patch if it resolves the entire memory leak but I'm still wondering why the reference to the EntityManagerFactory didn't get cleaned up. Scott -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira