What should happen (at least with 2.2.0 code) is when a server is killed while processing a client invocatoin, the client will get a connection reset exception (is a SocketException that is actually thrown internally). Internally, remoting client catches that SocketException and re-tries the invocation (several times). I think the delay you are seeing is due to the number of times it retries along with the amount of time it takes for the connection timeout to kick in (i.e. timeout * numberOfRetries * numberOfCallRetries). If want immediate failure, can set numberOfRetries and numberOfCallRetries to 0 (see http://labs.jboss.com/portal/jbossremoting/docs/guide/ch05.html#d0e1088). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4030784#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...