I have created a bug report without any luck: AMQ-6802 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-6802>
I wasn't able to find a solution for this issue, however, a workaround via deadLetterStrategy. DLQ messages are to be expired after X milliseconds to avoid at least the overflow of kahaDB journal files: <deadLetterStrategy> <sharedDeadLetterStrategy <b>expiration="300000"* processExpired="true" processNonPersistent="true"/> </deadLetterStrategy> -- Sent from: http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/ActiveMQ-User-f2341805.html