diff --git a/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/artery/tcp/ArteryTcpTransport.scala b/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/artery/tcp/ArteryTcpTransport.scala
index 266d4359f4..f37e532571 100644
--- a/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/artery/tcp/ArteryTcpTransport.scala
+++ b/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/artery/tcp/ArteryTcpTransport.scala
@@ -171,10 +171,10 @@ private[remote] class ArteryTcpTransport(_system: ExtendedActorSystem, _provider
 
     Flow[EnvelopeBuffer]
       .map { env ⇒
-        // TODO Possible performance improvement, could we reduce the copying of bytes?
-        afr.hiFreq(TcpOutbound_Sent, env.byteBuffer.limit)
-        val size = env.byteBuffer.limit
+        val size = env.byteBuffer.limit()
+        afr.hiFreq(TcpOutbound_Sent, size)
 
+        // TODO Possible performance improvement, could we reduce the copying of bytes?
         val bytes = ByteString(env.byteBuffer)
         bufferPool.release(env)
 
diff --git a/akka-remote/src/test/scala/akka/remote/artery/tcp/TcpFramingSpec.scala b/akka-remote/src/test/scala/akka/remote/artery/tcp/TcpFramingSpec.scala
index 5b63d7ea32..0b1361a309 100644
--- a/akka-remote/src/test/scala/akka/remote/artery/tcp/TcpFramingSpec.scala
+++ b/akka-remote/src/test/scala/akka/remote/artery/tcp/TcpFramingSpec.scala
@@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ class TcpFramingSpec extends AkkaSpec with ImplicitSender {
         val frames = Source.fromIterator(() ⇒ rechunk(bytes)).via(framingFlow).runWith(Sink.seq).futureValue
         frames.size should ===(numberOfFrames)
         frames.foreach { frame ⇒
-          frame.byteBuffer.limit should ===(payload5.size)
-          val payload = new Array[Byte](frame.byteBuffer.limit)
+          frame.byteBuffer.limit() should ===(payload5.size)
+          val payload = new Array[Byte](frame.byteBuffer.limit())
           frame.byteBuffer.get(payload)
           ByteString(payload) should ===(payload5)
           frame.streamId should ===(3)