Here is my xml file:

<infinispan xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="urn:infinispan:config:4.0">
 <global>
 <transport clusterName="demoCluster"/>
 </global>

 <default>
 <clustering mode="replication">
 </clustering>

 <eviction wakeUpInterval="100" maxEntries="5000" strategy="FIFO"/>

 <locking
 isolationLevel="REPEATABLE_READ"
 lockAcquisitionTimeout="2000"
 writeSkewCheck="false"
 concurrencyLevel="500" useLockStriping="false"/>
 <loaders>
 <loader class="org.infinispan.loaders.jdbc.stringbased.JdbcStringBasedCacheStore" fetchPersistentState="false"
 ignoreModifications="false" purgeOnStartup="false">
 <properties>
 <property name="stringsTableNamePrefix" value="ISPN_STRING_TABLE"/>
 <property name="idColumnName" value="ID_COLUMN"/>
 <property name="dataColumnName" value="DATA_COLUMN"/>
 <property name="timestampColumnName" value="TIMESTAMP_COLUMN"/>
 <property name="timestampColumnType" value="BIGINT"/>
 <property name="connectionFactoryClass"
 value="org.infinispan.loaders.jdbc.connectionfactory.PooledConnectionFactory"/>
 <property name="connectionUrl" value="jdbc:h2:~/testing;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1"/>
 <property name="userName" value="sa"/>
 <property name="driverClass" value="org.h2.Driver"/>
 <property name="idColumnType" value="VARCHAR(255)"/>
 <property name="dataColumnType" value="BINARY"/>
<!-- <property name="dropTableOnExit" value="true"/>-->
 <property name="createTableOnStart" value="true"/>
 </properties>
 </loader>
 </loaders>

 </default>

</infinispan>

I was trying to do a test where I check the size of the cache after reading a value, pause for a bit to allow the item to be evicted and recheck the size of the cache. At the moment that isn't doing as I thought it might.