I'll take a look. Manik, have you thought about an iterative approach to transferring state ? E.g. a low-level, low-priority task on the state provider which iterates over the tree a few times and sends the state to new joiner in small slices, and is only active when there isn't much load on the tree ? IMO a number of applications could live with such a state transfer, e.g. active-passive configs View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4112943#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...