I am seeing the same behavior. I'm on JBoss 4.2.2RC and appear to have the same setup, i.e.: jboss:service=Naming jboss:service=TransactionManager org.jboss.cache.JBossTransactionManagerLookup PESSIMISTIC READ_COMMITTED LOCAL 15000 org.jboss.cache.eviction.LRUPolicy 5 10000 3600 86400 50000 6000 View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4243320#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...