Create a cluster of 4 nodes: rm -rdf server1 unzip -q jboss-eap-8.0.0.GA-redhat-20230823.zip mv jboss-eap-8.0 server1 rm -rdf server2 unzip -q jboss-eap-8.0.0.GA-redhat-20230823.zip mv jboss-eap-8.0 server2 rm -rdf server3 unzip -q jboss-eap-8.0.0.GA-redhat-20230823.zip mv jboss-eap-8.0 server3 rm -rdf server4 unzip -q jboss-eap-8.0.0.GA-redhat-20230823.zip mv jboss-eap-8.0 server4 Configure the 4 nodes to persist session data in a file that should be purged: cat <<EOF > $PWD/test.cli embed-server --server-config=standalone-ha.xml if (outcome != success) of /subsystem=jgroups:read-attribute(name=default-stack) /subsystem=jgroups/channel=ee:write-attribute(name=stack,value=tcp) else /subsystem=jgroups:write-attribute(name=default-stack,value=tcp) /subsystem=jgroups/channel=ee:write-attribute(name=stack,value=tcp) end-if batch /subsystem=infinispan/cache-container=web/distributed-cache=dist:remove /subsystem=infinispan/cache-container=ejb/distributed-cache=dist:remove # web cache /subsystem=infinispan/cache-container=web/replicated-cache=dist:add() /subsystem=infinispan/cache-container=web/replicated-cache=dist/component=locking:add(isolation=REPEATABLE_READ) /subsystem=infinispan/cache-container=web/replicated-cache=dist/component=transaction:add(mode=BATCH) /subsystem=infinispan/cache-container=web/replicated-cache=dist/store=file:add(purge=true, passivation=true) /subsystem=infinispan/cache-container=web:write-attribute(name=default-cache, value=dist) # ejb cache /subsystem=infinispan/cache-container=ejb/replicated-cache=dist:add() /subsystem=infinispan/cache-container=ejb/replicated-cache=dist/component=locking:add(isolation=REPEATABLE_READ) /subsystem=infinispan/cache-container=ejb/replicated-cache=dist/component=transaction:add(mode=BATCH) /subsystem=infinispan/cache-container=ejb/replicated-cache=dist/store=file:add(purge=true, passivation=true) /subsystem=infinispan/cache-container=ejb:write-attribute(name=default-cache, value=dist) run-batch # session timeout after 1 minute /subsystem=undertow/servlet-container=default:write-attribute(name=default-session-timeout, value=1) EOF ./server1/bin/jboss-cli.sh --file=$PWD/test.cli ./server2/bin/jboss-cli.sh --file=$PWD/test.cli ./server3/bin/jboss-cli.sh --file=$PWD/test.cli ./server4/bin/jboss-cli.sh --file=$PWD/test.cli Deploy an application that is supposed to persist session data: clusterbench-ee10.ear : CLUSTERBENCH_EAR=clusterbench-ee10.ear cp $CLUSTERBENCH_EAR ./server1/standalone/deployments/ cp $CLUSTERBENCH_EAR ./server2/standalone/deployments/ cp $CLUSTERBENCH_EAR ./server3/standalone/deployments/ cp $CLUSTERBENCH_EAR ./server4/standalone/deployments/ start the 4 nodes in separate shells: ./server1/bin/standalone.sh --server-config=standalone-ha.xml -Djboss.socket.binding.port-offset=100 -Djboss.node.name=wildfly1 ./server2/bin/standalone.sh --server-config=standalone-ha.xml -Djboss.socket.binding.port-offset=200 -Djboss.node.name=wildfly2 ./server3/bin/standalone.sh --server-config=standalone-ha.xml -Djboss.socket.binding.port-offset=300 -Djboss.node.name=wildfly3 ./server4/bin/standalone.sh --server-config=standalone-ha.xml -Djboss.socket.binding.port-offset=400 -Djboss.node.name=wildfly4 Create enough session in order to get e.g. 3 store files created; if you are familiar with JMeter and you deployed clusterbench-ee10.ear , you can use jmeter.jmx ; open jmeter.jmx with JMeter 5.5 GUI, and press the start button, wait until all 2000 sessions are created, stop end repeat enough times to get the 3 store files created: Alternatively, you can run a script like this: for i in {1..20} do echo "JMeter Run $i ..." apache-jmeter-5.5/bin/jmeter -n -t jmeter.jmx done At this point you should have the following files: $ ls -ltr server1/standalone/data/infinispan/web/clusterbench-ee10.ear.clusterbench-ee10-web.war/data total 32872 -rw-r--r--. 1 tborgato tborgato 16777152 Sep 28 18:12 ispn12.0 -rw-r--r--. 1 tborgato tborgato 16777152 Sep 28 18:22 ispn12.1 -rw-r--r--. 1 tborgato tborgato 105192 Sep 28 18:22 ispn12.2 $ ls -ltr server2/standalone/data/infinispan/web/clusterbench-ee10.ear.clusterbench-ee10-web.war/data total 32872 -rw-r--r--. 1 tborgato tborgato 16777152 Sep 28 18:12 ispn12.0 -rw-r--r--. 1 tborgato tborgato 16777152 Sep 28 18:22 ispn12.1 -rw-r--r--. 1 tborgato tborgato 105192 Sep 28 18:22 ispn12.2 $ ls -ltr server3/standalone/data/infinispan/web/clusterbench-ee10.ear.clusterbench-ee10-web.war/data total 32872 -rw-r--r--. 1 tborgato tborgato 16777152 Sep 28 18:12 ispn12.0 -rw-r--r--. 1 tborgato tborgato 16777152 Sep 28 18:22 ispn12.1 -rw-r--r--. 1 tborgato tborgato 105192 Sep 28 18:22 ispn12.2 $ ls -ltr server4/standalone/data/infinispan/web/clusterbench-ee10.ear.clusterbench-ee10-web.war/data total 32872 -rw-r--r--. 1 tborgato tborgato 16777152 Sep 28 18:12 ispn12.0 -rw-r--r--. 1 tborgato tborgato 16777152 Sep 28 18:22 ispn12.1 -rw-r--r--. 1 tborgato tborgato 105192 Sep 28 18:22 ispn12.2 Wait until sessions expire (default should be 30 minutes but this reproduces set session timeout to 1 minute - I have waited more than 1 hour to be sure): you will see that none of these files is nor shrink in size or deleted; Note that if you stop and restart a node the file is automatically deleted;