I tried to set the permission of the folder so that the user who started the application has full control, and the issue persisted.
One more observation: (1) let instance #1 create all 10000 messages, the paging folder was created with a paging file (2) both instance #1 and instance#2 were processing the messages, and shut down instance #1 in the middle (3) instance #2 continued to process the messages until no more messages were available to instance #2. (4) restart instance #1 to process all messages in paging file. Instance #1 was not able to delete the paging file If I shut down instance #2 before restarting instance #1, the paging file will be accessed by instance #1 and it will be deleted after message processing was completed. So it looks like instance #2 was accessing the paging file, but just did not process the message. -- View this message in context: http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/paging-directory-not-accessible-to-cluster-member-tp4729527p4729598.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.