The most common implementation of ThreadLocal holds does not garbarge collect ThreadLocal values when the ThreadLocal goes out of scope - only when the Thread stops. Thus the BufferManager reserved threadlocal being a non-static inner class is inadvertently keeping a reference alive.

Marked as starting with Teiid 8.0 as selective Teiid restarts (which is how multiple instances are introduced) are not performed in the 7.x series.