Hi, In my opinion, I vote for 2. anonymous wrote : what if the number of existing nodes is greater than the max number of nodes the policy allows? The nodes exisiting in a region should be populated to the eviction queue keeping the order they were created. Thus, if the number of existing nodes is greater than the max number of nodes the policy allows, they will be evicted as they should. This would be a high cost requirement, but it deals to a consitent solution. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4149041#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...