OutOfMemoryError in JBoss A-MQ due to million instances of org.apache.activemq.thread.SchedulerTimerTask
Issue
Our A-MQ broker ran out of memory. We captured a JVM heap dump and its analysis shows million of instances of class org.apache.activemq.thread.SchedulerTimerTask.
These occupy 80 or more percent of the entire JVM heap.
Environment
- JBoss A-MQ 6.1.0
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