"walbar" wrote : Besides, I have activated a higher level of logging and found that for rendering '/portal' page it makes extensive use of hibernate, many times going beyond the cache and making actual queries to the database (even without the CMS portlet). | Depends where in the DB its accessing. Remember, that Hib does not allow cacheing Blobs. Im not sure about others parts of the DB schema, but the CMS (I realize you removed it) does makes extensive use of Blobs (stupid jackrabbit architecture!), so we were forced to add another level cache. Sohil should be able to jprofile things a bit better than my random shots in the dark posts here, and Ill have him post here. ;-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3985461#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...