What are you trying to achieve here? If you want state to be transferred from neighbouring caches in the cluster, you have 2 options - 1) enable FetchInMemoryState with a suitable InitialStateRetrievalTimeout, or 2) use the ClusteredCacheLoader which will load these elements lazily. Since they are fetched lazily there is no guarantee that all cache instances will have all the state at the same time. Also, the fact that you have an eviction policy with no persistent cache loader means that you could be losing cached state. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4136062#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...