You are correct. I didn't look at all of the properties of the mbean before I replied, and instead replied based on my memory which is apparently deteriorating faster than I care to admit! ;-) In your graph, what is the highest that InUseConnectionCount goes? You could always post the raw data for your graph and I could replot it. Hopefully you have it as a CSV file or something like that. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4216344#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...