These are the relevant settings in the config. I have stripped out unused regions, the bold region is the problem, rest work <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 5 <!-- This defaults to 200000 if not specified --> 200000 org.jboss.cache.eviction.LRUPolicy <!-- Node locking level : SERIALIZABLE REPEATABLE_READ (default) READ_COMMITTED READ_UNCOMMITTED NONE --> READ_UNCOMMITTED <!-- Lock parent before doing node additions/removes --> true <!-- Valid modes are LOCAL (default) REPL_ASYNC REPL_SYNC INVALIDATION_ASYNC INVALIDATION_SYNC --> LOCAL <!-- Cache wide default --> 5000 600 0 600 0 0 0 0 0 150 View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4211237#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...