Guys, Any thoughts on whether the eviction thread should use a lock acquisition timeout of 0, as discussed here: http://jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3979697 and reported here: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBCACHE-794 particularly since it will avoid the deadlock reported above? Ideally, I'd like to get this into 1.4.0.SP2. Cheers, -- Manik Surtani Lead, JBoss Cache JBoss, a division of Red Hat Email: manik(a)jboss.org Telephone: +44 7786 702 706 MSN: manik(a)surtani.org Yahoo/AIM/Skype: maniksurtani