TxCleanupService* thread created for each cacheable Hibernate entity in EAP 6

Environment

• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
  • 6
  • 7
• Hibernate
• Infinispan
  • 5
  • 8

Issue

Thread dumps show that for each entity marked @Cacheable, there is created a thread with a name like the following

TxCleanupService,<enterprise_application_archive>/<war_file>#<persistence_unit_name>.<package>.<entity_name>,local

Resolution

This is expected behavior but the behavior has been altered (reducing thread counts) in:

• EAP 6.4 cumulative patch 13 (and later) as part if the work for This content is not included.BZ-1378875
• EAP 7.0 cumulative patch 5 (and later) as part of the work for Content from issues.jboss.org is not included.JBEAP-7655

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