In what cases are eviction regions created after nodes are created in the cache? The only potential situations I can think of are preloading from a cache loader or a state transfer, both of which happen during startup, before the region is created. Perhaps we should look into reordering the startup sequence so that any preloading or state transfer happens after eviction regions are set up, and that preloading and state transfer create the necessary events in the eviction queue? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4149053#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...