We are getting NullPointerExceptions in MRUMemmoryStore when under load. This should not be. The keys looked up are the XSP logicsheets, and this is the Exception stacktrace available. ERROR 99504 [cocoon ] (Thread-40): Error in MRUMemoryStore! java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.cocoon.components.store.MRUMemoryStore.checkSeriazable(MRUMemoryStore.java:349) at org.apache.cocoon.components.store.MRUMemoryStore.free(MRUMemoryStore.java:337) at org.apache.cocoon.components.store.MRUMemoryStore.hold(MRUMemoryStore.java:242) at org.apache.cocoon.components.store.MRUMemoryStore.store(MRUMemoryStore.java:227) at org.apache.cocoon.components.language.markup.AbstractMarkupLanguage.configure(AbstractMarkupLanguage.java:132) at org.apache.avalon.excalibur.component.DefaultComponentFactory.newInstance(DefaultComponentFactory.java:108) at org.apache.avalon.excalibur.component.DefaultComponentHandler.get(DefaultComponentHandler.java:92) at org.apache.avalon.excalibur.component.ExcaliburComponentSelector.select(ExcaliburComponentSelector.java:246) at org.apache.cocoon.components.language.generator.ProgramGeneratorImpl.load(ProgramGeneratorImpl.java:230) at org.apache.cocoon.generation.ServerPagesGenerator.setup(ServerPagesGenerator.java:153) at org.apache.cocoon.components.pipeline.AbstractEventPipeline.setupPipeline(AbstractEventPipeline.java:151) at org.apache.cocoon.components.pipeline.CachingEventPipeline.setup(CachingEventPipeline.java:246) at org.apache.cocoon.components.pipeline.CachingEventPipeline.generateKey(CachingEventPipeline.java:108) at org.apache.cocoon.components.pipeline.CachingStreamPipeline.process(CachingStreamPipeline.java:279) at org.apache.cocoon.www.sitemap_xmap.wildcardMatchN18B(sitemap_xmap.java:1547) at org.apache.cocoon.www.sitemap_xmap.process(sitemap_xmap.java:1051) at org.apache.cocoon.www.sitemap_xmap.process(sitemap_xmap.java:997) at org.apache.cocoon.sitemap.Handler.process(Handler.java:160) at org.apache.cocoon.sitemap.Manager.invoke(Manager.java:103) at org.apache.cocoon.Cocoon.process(Cocoon.java:354) at org.apache.cocoon.servlet.CocoonServlet.service(CocoonServlet.java:488) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java) at org.apache.tomcat.facade.ServletHandler.doService(ServletHandler.java:500) at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:223) at org.apache.tomcat.facade.ServletHandler.service(ServletHandler.java:448) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:788) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:701) at org.apache.tomcat.modules.server.Http10Interceptor.processConnection(Http10Interceptor.java:143) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:424) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:497) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)