OutOfMemoryErrors and High Heap Usage in AMQ7 with OpenWire Clients

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Issue

When running an AMQ7 broker, particularly with large numbers of OpenWire / legacy ActiveMQ clients, we notice unusually large heap usage and sometimes OutOfMemoryErrors related to heap space.

Environment

Red Hat AMQ 7
ActiveMQ 5.x Clients (For example: the ActiveMQ Resource Adapter In JBoss EAP 6)

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