Sounds like you're already implementing one of the solutions we discussed. However, I'm not sure we decided on that solution (keep depaging until the reference is found). Like I said yesterday, please *discuss* before jumping in with solutions. The depage solution can lead to OOM and may not be desirable. The other solutions we discussed were maintaining ordering. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4200023#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...