Determining the best commit option

To determine whether to use commit option B or commit option C, first take a look at the cache-hits value using the monitoring command for the bean. If the cache hits are much higher than cache misses, then option B is an appropriate choice. You might still have to change the max-cache-size and cache-resize-quantity to get the best result.

If the cache hits are too low and cache misses are very high, then the application is not reusing the bean instances and hence increasing the cache size (using max-cache-size) will not help (assuming that the access pattern remains the same). In this case you might use commit option C. If there is no great difference between cache-hits and cache-misses then tune max-cache-size, and probably cache-idle-timeout-in-seconds.