Regarding disabling the eviction thread by setting WakeupIntervalSeconds to 0, this is done. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4168153#4168153 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4168153