Hi Chris,
You mean EOL is for EAS6 or EAS5 next year ?, EOL is for EAS5 as I know.
Trying some other stuff to fix this memory issue, at least I need to know the root cause of this extensive exhaust of memory which goes on increasing till server crash.
At last I will have to raise case with SAP to get some help on it., but till date analysis I could make out that there is something wrong with the EAS6 repository or JDK1.7 because as far as code is concerned, yesterday I redeployed all the PB-EAS component removing instance pooling(considering pooling might be keeping unreleased threads in and other way) but there have been no any change at all.
If you have something in suggestion do let me know I will keep on trying 
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Thanks,
Kunal