"bander" wrote : "timfox" wrote : How are you "killing" your servers? | | | | They're running in a DOS window (or whatever MS are calling them now). I've just been issuing a Control-C. | Ok, that explains a lot. CTRL-C will cause a clean shutdown of the server, and the client won't attempt failover. Try killing the jboss server process in task manager and you'll see a big difference View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4026514#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...