JBossCache eviction queue fills up

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

I am using JBoss Cache and many threads on my server have become stuck waiting on JBoss cache to retrieve data from or put data into the cache. There are threads with stack traces like

EDU.oswego.cs.dl.util.concurrent.BoundedLinkedQueue.put(BoundedLinkedQueue.java:296)
org.jboss.cache.eviction.Region.putNodeEvent(Region.java:141)
org.jboss.cache.interceptors.EvictionInterceptor.doEventUpdatesOnRegionManager(EvictionInterceptor.java:149)
org.jboss.cache.interceptors.EvictionInterceptor.updateNode(EvictionInterceptor.java:122)
org.jboss.cache.interceptors.EvictionInterceptor.invoke(EvictionInterceptor.java:97)
org.jboss.cache.interceptors.Interceptor.invoke(Interceptor.java:68)
org.jboss.cache.interceptors.PessimisticLockInterceptor.invoke(PessimisticLockInterceptor.java:206)
org.jboss.cache.interceptors.Interceptor.invoke(Interceptor.java:68)
org.jboss.cache.interceptors.UnlockInterceptor.invoke(UnlockInterceptor.java:32)
org.jboss.cache.interceptors.Interceptor.invoke(Interceptor.java:68)
org.jboss.cache.interceptors.TxInterceptor.handleNonTxMethod(TxInterceptor.java:379)
org.jboss.cache.interceptors.TxInterceptor.invoke(TxInterceptor.java:174)
org.jboss.cache.interceptors.Interceptor.invoke(Interceptor.java:68)
org.jboss.cache.interceptors.CacheMgmtInterceptor.invoke(CacheMgmtInterceptor.java:138)
org.jboss.cache.TreeCache.invokeMethod(TreeCache.java:5934)
org.jboss.cache.TreeCache.get(TreeCache.java:3656)
...

and possibly seeing warnings like

eviction node event queue size is at 98% threshold value of capacity: 200000 You will need to reduce the wakeUpIntervalSeconds 
parameter

The data should be evicted by the cache, as it should be large enough to hold everything. Why is the eviction queue filling up?

Environment

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
  • JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform (EPP)
  • JBoss Cache

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