"lovelyliatroim" wrote : Difference between adding locally and adding to the cache via the cache loader is that the addEvictionEntry in the ExpirationAlgorithm class is never called. This I assume is why it will never get evicted because it never gets registered. | Yes, this is possibly why. Specifically, do you use the DataGravitationInterceptor (used with buddy replication) or the ClusteredCacheLoader (not used with BR, but simply used as a cache loader impl) ? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4206898#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...