Quite often, users/customers encounter the ~1 min deployments scenario that. A node that has this slow startup can in theory be considered a working node with the caveat that maybe some nodes don't have DRM information for EJB proxies for example. However, I'm yet to see a customer who was happy to carry on with such a slow node. IOW, a customer who considered a node with these symptoms to be healthy. I covered debugging such scenario in http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=127721 thread, but should we react to this scenario in a different way? Should we maybe evict the nodes failing to respond in time from the cluster? It might be a case that they're just slow, but if you kicked them out from the cluster, the next deployments would (potentially) work fine. Currently, we're only logging ignored missing responses as TRACE. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4120174#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...