Hello,

I am using Artemis 2.4.0 to broker messages through JMS queues/topics between a 
set of clients. Some are Apache NMS 1.7.2 ActiveMQ clients and others are using 
Artemis JMS client 1.5.4 included in Spring Boot 1.5.3. Broker topology is a 
symmetric cluster of two live nodes with static connectors, both nodes having 
been setup as replicating colocated backup pairs with scale down. I have two 
quite frustrating issues at the moment: message redistribution not working 
correctly and a memory leak causing eventual thread death.

ISSUE #1 - Message redistribution / load balancing not working:

Client 1 (NMS) connects to broker a and starts listening, artemis creates the 
following address:

(Broker a):
A.B.*.C.D
|-queues
|-multicast
  |-f64dd592-a8fb-442e-826d-927834d566f4

Server 1 (artemis-jms-client) connects to broker b and sends a message to 
topic: A.B.f64dd592-a8fb-442e-826d-927834d566f4.C.D - this should be routed to 
broker a since the corresponding queue has no consumers on broker b (the queue 
does not exist). This however does not happen and the client receives no 
messages. Broker b has some other clients connected, causing similar (but not 
the same) queues having been created:

(Broker b):
A.B.*.C.D
|-queues
|-multicast
  |-1eb48079-7fd8-40e9-b822-bcc25695ced0
  |-9f295257-c352-4ae6-b74b-d5994f330485


ISSUE #2: - Memory leak and eventual thread death

Artemis broker has 4GB allocated heap space and global-max-size is set up as 
half of that (being the default setting). Address-full-policy is set to PAGE 
for all addresses and some individual addresses have small max-size-bytes 
values set e.g. 104857600. As far as I know the paging settings should limit 
memory usage but what happens is that at times Artemis uses the whole heap 
space, encounters an out of memory error and dies:

05:39:29,510 WARN  [org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool] : 
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
05:39:16,646 WARN  [io.netty.channel.ChannelInitializer] Failed to initialize a 
channel. Closing: [id: ...]: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
05:41:05,597 WARN  [org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool] Unexpected 
thread death: org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$2@5ffaba31 in 
qtp20111564{STARTED,8<=8<=200,i=2,q=0}

Are these known issues in Artemis or misconfigurations in the brokers?

The broker configurations are as follows. Broker b has an identical 
configuration excluding that the cluster connector's connector-ref and 
static-connector connector-ref refer to broker b and broker a respectively.

Best regards,

broker.xml (broker a):

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<configuration xmlns="urn:activemq" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; 
xsi:schemaLocation="urn:activemq /schema/artemis-configuration.xsd">
    <core xmlns="urn:activemq:core" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; 
xsi:schemaLocation="urn:activemq:core ">
        <name>[broker-a-ip]</name>
        <persistence-enabled>true</persistence-enabled>

        <journal-type>NIO</journal-type>

        <paging-directory>...</paging-directory>
        <bindings-directory>...</bindings-directory>
        <journal-directory>...</journal-directory>
        <large-messages-directory>...</large-messages-directory>

        <journal-datasync>true</journal-datasync>
        <journal-min-files>2</journal-min-files>
        <journal-pool-files>-1</journal-pool-files>
        <journal-buffer-timeout>788000</journal-buffer-timeout>
        <disk-scan-period>5000</disk-scan-period>

        <max-disk-usage>97</max-disk-usage>

        <critical-analyzer>true</critical-analyzer>
        <critical-analyzer-timeout>120000</critical-analyzer-timeout>
        <critical-analyzer-check-period>60000</critical-analyzer-check-period>
        <critical-analyzer-policy>HALT</critical-analyzer-policy>

        <acceptors>
            <acceptor name="invm-acceptor">vm://0</acceptor>
            <acceptor name="artemis">tcp://0.0.0.0:61616</acceptor>
            <acceptor 
name="ssl">tcp://0.0.0.0:61617?sslEnabled=true;keyStorePath=...;keyStorePassword=...</acceptor>
        </acceptors>
        <connectors>
            <connector name="invm-connector">vm://0</connector>
            <connector 
name="netty-connector">tcp://[broker-a-ip]:61616</connector>
            <connector name="broker-b-connector">[broker-b-ip]:61616</connector>
        </connectors>

        <cluster-connections>
            <cluster-connection name="cluster-name">
                <address>*</address>
                <connector-ref>netty-connector</connector-ref>
                <retry-interval>500</retry-interval>
                <reconnect-attempts>5</reconnect-attempts>
                <use-duplicate-detection>true</use-duplicate-detection>
                <message-load-balancing>ON_DEMAND</message-load-balancing>
                <max-hops>1</max-hops>
                <static-connectors>
                    <connector-ref>broker-b-connector</connector-ref>
                </static-connectors>
            </cluster-connection>
        </cluster-connections>

        <ha-policy>
            <replication>
                <colocated>
                    
<backup-request-retry-interval>5000</backup-request-retry-interval>
                    <max-backups>3</max-backups>
                    <request-backup>true</request-backup>
                    <backup-port-offset>100</backup-port-offset>
                    <excludes>
                        <connector-ref>invm-connector</connector-ref>
                        <connector-ref>netty-connector</connector-ref>
                    </excludes>
                    <master>
                        <check-for-live-server>true</check-for-live-server>
                    </master>
                    <slave>
                        <restart-backup>false</restart-backup>
                        <scale-down />
                    </slave>
                </colocated>
            </replication>
        </ha-policy>

        <cluster-user>ARTEMIS.CLUSTER.ADMIN.USER</cluster-user>
        <cluster-password>[the shared cluster password]</cluster-password>

        <security-settings>
            <security-setting match="#">
                <permission type="createDurableQueue" roles="amq, other-role" />
                <permission type="deleteDurableQueue" roles="amq, other-role" />
                <permission type="createNonDurableQueue" roles="amq, 
other-role"  />
                <permission type="createAddress" roles="amq, other-role" />
                <permission type="deleteNonDurableQueue" roles="amq, 
other-role" />
                <permission type="deleteAddress" roles="amq, other-role" />
                <permission type="consume" roles="amq, other-role" />
                <permission type="browse" roles="amq, other-role" />
                <permission type="send" roles="amq, other-role" />
                <permission type="manage" roles="amq" />
            </security-setting>
            <security-setting match="A.some.queue">
                <permission type="createNonDurableQueue" roles="amq, 
other-role" />
                <permission type="deleteNonDurableQueue" roles="amq, 
other-role" />
                <permission type="createDurableQueue" roles="amq, other-role" />
                <permission type="deleteDurableQueue" roles="amq, other-role" />
                <permission type="createAddress" roles="amq, other-role" />
                <permission type="deleteAddress" roles="amq, other-role" />
                <permission type="consume" roles="amq, other-role" />
                <permission type="browse" roles="amq, other-role" />
                <permission type="send" roles="amq, other-role" />
            </security-setting>
                <security-setting match="A.some.other.queue">
                <permission type="createNonDurableQueue" roles="amq, 
other-role" />
                <permission type="deleteNonDurableQueue" roles="amq, 
other-role" />
                <permission type="createDurableQueue" roles="amq, other-role" />
                <permission type="deleteDurableQueue" roles="amq, other-role" />
                <permission type="createAddress" roles="amq, other-role" />
                <permission type="deleteAddress" roles="amq, other-role" />
                <permission type="consume" roles="amq, other-role" />
                <permission type="browse" roles="amq, other-role" />
                <permission type="send" roles="amq, other-role" />
            </security-setting>
            ...
            ... etc.
            ...
        </security-settings>

        <address-settings>
            <address-setting match="activemq.management#">
                <dead-letter-address>DLQ</dead-letter-address>
                <expiry-address>ExpiryQueue</expiry-address>
                <redelivery-delay>0</redelivery-delay>
                <max-size-bytes>-1</max-size-bytes>
                
<message-counter-history-day-limit>10</message-counter-history-day-limit>
                <address-full-policy>PAGE</address-full-policy>
            </address-setting>
            <!--default for catch all -->
            <address-setting match="#">
                <dead-letter-address>DLQ</dead-letter-address>
                <expiry-address>ExpiryQueue</expiry-address>
                <redelivery-delay>0</redelivery-delay>
                <max-size-bytes>-1</max-size-bytes>
                
<message-counter-history-day-limit>10</message-counter-history-day-limit>
                <address-full-policy>PAGE</address-full-policy>
                <redistribution-delay>1000</redistribution-delay>
            </address-setting>
            <address-setting match="DLQ">
                <!-- 100 * 1024 * 1024 -> 100MB -->
                <max-size-bytes>104857600</max-size-bytes>
                <!-- 1000 * 60 * 60 -> 1h -->
                <expiry-delay>3600000</expiry-delay>
                <expiry-address />
            </address-setting>
            <address-setting match="A.some.queue">
                <redelivery-delay-multiplier>1.0</redelivery-delay-multiplier>
                <redelivery-delay>0</redelivery-delay>
                <max-redelivery-delay>10</max-redelivery-delay>
            </address-setting>
                <address-setting match="A.some.other.queue">
                <redelivery-delay-multiplier>1.0</redelivery-delay-multiplier>
                <redelivery-delay>0</redelivery-delay>
                <max-redelivery-delay>10</max-redelivery-delay>
                <max-delivery-attempts>1</max-delivery-attempts>
                <max-size-bytes>104857600</max-size-bytes>
            </address-setting>
            ...
            ... etc.
            ...
        </address-settings>

        <addresses>
            <address name="DLQ">
                <anycast>
                    <queue name="DLQ" />
                </anycast>
            </address>
            <address name="ExpiryQueue">
                <anycast>
                    <queue name="ExpiryQueue" />
                </anycast>
            </address>
            <address name="A.some.queue">
                <anycast>
                    <queue name="A.some.queue">
                        <durable>true</durable>
                    </queue>
                </anycast>
            </address>
            <address name="A.some.other.queue">
                <anycast>
                    <queue name="A.some.other.queue">
                        <durable>true</durable>
                    </queue>
                </anycast>
            </address>
            ...
            ... etc.
            ...
        </addresses>
    </core>
</configuration>

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