"manik.surtani(a)jboss.com" wrote : I'd hate to introduce another cfg variable that essentially does the same thing. At the end of the day, the default is striped locks + cL of 500. If someone switches off striped locking, they're best off re-tuning the cL as well. I guess my point was more that the default is fine. You could also do something like segments = (concurrency level % 20) View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4219476#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...