@fbettag I get the following exception when run latest code from master:

[info] Running io.wasted.netty.websocket.bench.Client ws://localhost:5555 50
21:19:49.042 DEBUG i.n.u.i.l.InternalLoggerFactory - Using SLF4J as the default logging framework
21:19:49.046 DEBUG i.n.c.MultithreadEventLoopGroup - io.netty.eventLoopThreads: 8
21:19:49.059 DEBUG i.n.util.internal.PlatformDependent - UID: 501
21:19:49.060 DEBUG i.n.util.internal.PlatformDependent - Java version: 7
21:19:49.062 DEBUG i.n.util.internal.PlatformDependent0 - java.nio.ByteBuffer.cleaner: available
21:19:49.062 DEBUG i.n.util.internal.PlatformDependent0 - java.nio.Buffer.address: available
21:19:49.062 DEBUG i.n.util.internal.PlatformDependent0 - sun.misc.Unsafe.theUnsafe: available
21:19:49.063 DEBUG i.n.util.internal.PlatformDependent0 - sun.misc.Unsafe.copyMemory: available
21:19:49.063 DEBUG i.n.util.internal.PlatformDependent0 - java.nio.Bits.unaligned: true
21:19:49.063 DEBUG i.n.util.internal.PlatformDependent - sun.misc.Unsafe: available
21:19:49.188 DEBUG i.n.util.internal.PlatformDependent - Javassist: available
21:19:49.188 DEBUG i.n.util.internal.PlatformDependent - io.netty.noPreferDirect: false
21:19:49.292 DEBUG i.n.buffer.PooledByteBufAllocator - io.netty.allocator.numHeapArenas: 4
21:19:49.292 DEBUG i.n.buffer.PooledByteBufAllocator - io.netty.allocator.numDirectArenas: 4
21:19:49.292 DEBUG i.n.buffer.PooledByteBufAllocator - io.netty.allocator.pageSize: 8192
21:19:49.292 DEBUG i.n.buffer.PooledByteBufAllocator - io.netty.allocator.maxOrder: 11
21:19:49.292 DEBUG i.n.buffer.PooledByteBufAllocator - io.netty.allocator.chunkSize: 16777216
21:19:49.337 DEBUG io.netty.util.ResourceLeakDetector - io.netty.noResourceLeakDetection: false
21:19:49.345 DEBUG i.n.u.i.JavassistTypeParameterMatcherGenerator - Generated: io.netty.util.internal.**matchers**.io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpObjectMatcher
21:19:49.411 DEBUG i.n.u.i.JavassistTypeParameterMatcherGenerator - Generated: io.netty.util.internal.**matchers**.io.netty.handler.codec.http.websocketx.WebSocketFrameMatcher
21:19:49.488 INFO  Client$ - All 50 launched
21:19:50.569 WARN  io.netty.util.HashedWheelTimer - An exception was thrown by TimerTask.
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
    at io.wasted.netty.websocket.bench.Client$$anonfun$start$1.apply$mcV$sp(Client.scala:55) ~[classes/:na]
    at io.wasted.netty.websocket.bench.Schedule$$anonfun$io$wasted$netty$websocket$bench$Schedule$$repeatFunc$1.apply$mcV$sp(Schedule.scala:26) ~[classes/:na]
    at io.wasted.netty.websocket.bench.Schedule$$anon$1.run(Schedule.scala:20) ~[classes/:na]
    at io.netty.util.HashedWheelTimer$HashedWheelTimeout.expire(HashedWheelTimer.java:535) ~[netty-all-4.0.0.CR7.jar:na]
    at io.netty.util.HashedWheelTimer$Worker.notifyExpiredTimeouts(HashedWheelTimer.java:433) [netty-all-4.0.0.CR7.jar:na]
    at io.netty.util.HashedWheelTimer$Worker.run(HashedWheelTimer.java:374) [netty-all-4.0.0.CR7.jar:na]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) [na:1.7.0_17]
21:19:51.663 WARN  io.netty.util.HashedWheelTimer - An exception was thrown by TimerTask.
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
    at io.wasted.netty.websocket.bench.Client$$anonfun$start$1.apply$mcV$sp(Client.scala:55) ~[classes/:na]
    at io.wasted.netty.websocket.bench.Schedule$$anonfun$io$wasted$netty$websocket$bench$Schedule$$repeatFunc$1.apply$mcV$sp(Schedule.scala:26) ~[classes/:na]
    at io.wasted.netty.websocket.bench.Schedule$$anon$1.run(Schedule.scala:20) ~[classes/:na]
    at io.netty.util.HashedWheelTimer$HashedWheelTimeout.expire(HashedWheelTimer.java:535) ~[netty-all-4.0.0.CR7.jar:na]
    at io.netty.util.HashedWheelTimer$Worker.notifyExpiredTimeouts(HashedWheelTimer.java:433) [netty-all-4.0.0.CR7.jar:na]
    at io.netty.util.HashedWheelTimer$Worker.run(HashedWheelTimer.java:374) [netty-all-4.0.0.CR7.jar:na]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) [na:1.7.0_17]
21:19:52.763 WARN  io.netty.util.HashedWheelTimer - An exception was thrown by TimerTask.
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
    at io.wasted.netty.websocket.bench.Client$$anonfun$start$1.apply$mcV$sp(Client.scala:55) ~[classes/:na]
    at io.wasted.netty.websocket.bench.Schedule$$anonfun$io$wasted$netty$websocket$bench$Schedule$$repeatFunc$1.apply$mcV$sp(Schedule.scala:26) ~[classes/:na]
    at io.wasted.netty.websocket.bench.Schedule$$anon$1.run(Schedule.scala:20) ~[classes/:na]
    at io.netty.util.HashedWheelTimer$HashedWheelTimeout.expire(HashedWheelTimer.java:535) ~[netty-all-4.0.0.CR7.jar:na]
    at io.netty.util.HashedWheelTimer$Worker.notifyExpiredTimeouts(HashedWheelTimer.java:433) [netty-all-4.0.0.CR7.jar:na]
    at io.netty.util.HashedWheelTimer$Worker.run(HashedWheelTimer.java:374) [netty-all-4.0.0.CR7.jar:na]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) [na:1.7.0_17]
 Dont pay attention to the client, i wanted to output stats but decided otherwise. Will cean it up, doesnt have impact tho.
 @fbettag don't call retain on the request when pass it to the handshakeer. This will fix it. I have added some explanation to the javadocs to make this clear.

ResourceLeakException in CR7
During our tests with our benchmark, we saw a Leak which according to us and norman did not make sense.

Test-Case can be found at https://github.com/wasted/netty-websocket-bench

Output from Server:

fbettag@committers:~/netty-bench$ ./sbt 'run-main io.wasted.netty.websocket.bench.Server'
[info] Loading project definition from /home/fbettag/netty-bench/project
[info] Set current project to netty-bench (in build file:/home/fbettag/netty-bench/)
[info] Running io.wasted.netty.websocket.bench.Server 
22:19:23.818 DEBUG i.n.u.i.l.InternalLoggerFactory - Using SLF4J as the default logging framework
22:19:23.823 DEBUG i.n.c.MultithreadEventLoopGroup - io.netty.eventLoopThreads: 12
22:19:23.835 DEBUG i.n.util.internal.PlatformDependent - UID: 1001
22:19:23.835 DEBUG i.n.util.internal.PlatformDependent - Java version: 7
22:19:23.838 DEBUG i.n.util.internal.PlatformDependent0 - java.nio.ByteBuffer.cleaner: available
22:19:23.839 DEBUG i.n.util.internal.PlatformDependent0 - java.nio.Buffer.address: available
22:19:23.839 DEBUG i.n.util.internal.PlatformDependent0 - sun.misc.Unsafe.theUnsafe: available
22:19:23.839 DEBUG i.n.util.internal.PlatformDependent0 - sun.misc.Unsafe.copyMemory: available
22:19:23.839 DEBUG i.n.util.internal.PlatformDependent0 - java.nio.Bits.unaligned: true
22:19:23.840 DEBUG i.n.util.internal.PlatformDependent - sun.misc.Unsafe: available
22:19:23.967 DEBUG i.n.util.internal.PlatformDependent - Javassist: available
22:19:23.967 DEBUG i.n.util.internal.PlatformDependent - io.netty.noPreferDirect: false
22:19:24.088 DEBUG i.n.buffer.PooledByteBufAllocator - io.netty.allocator.numHeapArenas: 6
22:19:24.088 DEBUG i.n.buffer.PooledByteBufAllocator - io.netty.allocator.numDirectArenas: 6
22:19:24.088 DEBUG i.n.buffer.PooledByteBufAllocator - io.netty.allocator.pageSize: 8192
22:19:24.088 DEBUG i.n.buffer.PooledByteBufAllocator - io.netty.allocator.maxOrder: 11
22:19:24.088 DEBUG i.n.buffer.PooledByteBufAllocator - io.netty.allocator.chunkSize: 16777216
22:19:24.104 DEBUG io.netty.util.NetUtil - Loopback interface: lo
22:19:24.104 DEBUG io.netty.util.NetUtil - Loopback address: /0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%1 (primary)
22:19:24.104 DEBUG io.netty.util.NetUtil - Loopback address: /127.0.0.1
22:19:24.104 DEBUG io.netty.util.NetUtil - /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn: 128
22:19:24.129 DEBUG i.n.u.i.JavassistTypeParameterMatcherGenerator - Generated: io.netty.util.internal.**matchers**.io.netty.channel.ChannelMatcher
22:19:24.141 INFO  Server$ - Listening on 0.0.0.0:5555
22:19:24.142 INFO  Server$ - Ready
22:19:24.147 DEBUG io.netty.util.ResourceLeakDetector - io.netty.noResourceLeakDetection: false
22:19:25.200 INFO  Server$ - -- Stats -- connected: 0
22:19:26.294 INFO  Server$ - -- Stats -- connected: 0
22:19:27.394 INFO  Server$ - -- Stats -- connected: 0
22:19:28.395 INFO  Server$ - -- Stats -- connected: 0
22:19:29.395 INFO  Server$ - -- Stats -- connected: 0
22:19:30.495 INFO  Server$ - -- Stats -- connected: 0
22:19:31.168 DEBUG i.n.u.i.JavassistTypeParameterMatcherGenerator - Generated: io.netty.util.internal.**matchers**.io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpObjectMatcher
22:19:31.398 DEBUG i.n.u.i.JavassistTypeParameterMatcherGenerator - Generated: io.netty.util.internal.**matchers**.io.netty.handler.codec.http.websocketx.WebSocketFrameMatcher
22:19:31.594 INFO  Server$ - -- Stats -- connected: 382
22:19:32.594 INFO  Server$ - -- Stats -- connected: 1629
22:19:32.887 WARN  io.netty.util.ResourceLeakDetector - LEAK: ByteBuf was GC'd before being released correctly.
io.netty.util.ResourceLeakException: io.netty.buffer.DefaultCompositeByteBuf@7572e7e5
  at io.netty.util.ResourceLeakDetector$DefaultResourceLeak.<init>(ResourceLeakDetector.java:158) ~[netty-all-4.0.0.CR7.jar:na]
    at io.netty.util.ResourceLeakDetector.open(ResourceLeakDetector.java:103) ~[netty-all-4.0.0.CR7.jar:na]
    at io.netty.buffer.DefaultCompositeByteBuf.<init>(DefaultCompositeByteBuf.java:60) ~[netty-all-4.0.0.CR7.jar:na]
    at io.netty.buffer.Unpooled.compositeBuffer(Unpooled.java:353) ~[netty-all-4.0.0.CR7.jar:na]
    at io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpObjectAggregator.decode(HttpObjectAggregator.java:137) ~[netty-all-4.0.0.CR7.jar:na]
    at io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpObjectAggregator.decode(HttpObjectAggregator.java:49) ~[netty-all-4.0.0.CR7.jar:na]
    at io.netty.handler.codec.MessageToMessageDecoder.messageReceived(MessageToMessageDecoder.java:82) ~[netty-all-4.0.0.CR7.jar:na]
    at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelHandlerContext.invokeMessageReceived(DefaultChannelHandlerContext.java:379) [netty-all-4.0.0.CR7.jar:na]
    at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelHandlerContext.fireMessageReceived(DefaultChannelHandlerContext.java:364) [netty-all-4.0.0.CR7.jar:na]
    at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.messageReceived(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:187) [netty-all-4.0.0.CR7.jar:na]
    at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelHandlerContext.invokeMessageReceived(DefaultChannelHandlerContext.java:379) [netty-all-4.0.0.CR7.jar:na]
    at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelHandlerContext.fireMessageReceived(DefaultChannelHandlerContext.java:364) [netty-all-4.0.0.CR7.jar:na]
    at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.fireMessageReceived(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:786) [netty-all-4.0.0.CR7.jar:na]
    at io.netty.channel.nio.AbstractNioByteChannel$NioByteUnsafe.read(AbstractNioByteChannel.java:120) [netty-all-4.0.0.CR7.jar:na]
    at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKey(NioEventLoop.java:489) [netty-all-4.0.0.CR7.jar:na]
    at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKeysOptimized(NioEventLoop.java:464) [netty-all-4.0.0.CR7.jar:na]
    at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.run(NioEventLoop.java:358) [netty-all-4.0.0.CR7.jar:na]
    at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$2.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:101) [netty-all-4.0.0.CR7.jar:na]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) [na:1.7.0_03]
22:19:33.694 INFO  Server$ - -- Stats -- connected: 3293
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common/src/main/java/io/netty/util/ResourceLeakException.java
common/src/main/java/io/netty/util/ResourceLeakException.java
diff --git a/common/src/main/java/io/netty/util/ResourceLeakException.java b/common/src/main/java/io/netty/util/ResourceLeakException.java
index a69238884bf..d1bdec0c4ff 100644
--- a/common/src/main/java/io/netty/util/ResourceLeakException.java
+++ b/common/src/main/java/io/netty/util/ResourceLeakException.java
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 
 package io.netty.util;
 
+import io.netty.util.internal.StringUtil;
+
 import java.util.Arrays;
 
 public class ResourceLeakException extends RuntimeException {
@@ -64,4 +66,15 @@ public boolean equals(Object o) {
 
         return Arrays.equals(cachedStackTrace, ((ResourceLeakException) o).cachedStackTrace);
     }
+
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+        final StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
+        builder.append(this.getClass().getCanonicalName()).append(": ").append(getMessage());
+        for (StackTraceElement element : cachedStackTrace) {
+          builder.append(StringUtil.NEWLINE).append("  at ").append(element);
+        }
+
+        return builder.toString();
+    }
 }
