"phpguy99" wrote : Jason and Manik, | I'm afraid simple modulus won't make the tree deep. If I have 1,000,000 meters and written actively by 3 nodes (but I do have stickiness per node) then simple modulus like | x = ID % 10000 | fqn = /ROOT/x/ID | | ROOT still has 10000 direct nodes (which is according to Manik should be less than 500 direct children per node). | How many threads do you have inserting/removing (not updating) on the same process at the same time? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4166481#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...