I don't know it is a bug or is my misunderstand. Once the number of nodes not exceeds the maxNodes value in region, the ecvit policy will not check the timeToLiveSeconds and maxAgeSeconds values. As my understand, timeToLiveSeconds and maxAgeSeconds should work regardless the number of nodes in region. Ben, can clear this issue, thanks. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3962715#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...